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CONTENTS. 

PART L 

LESSON I. 

Clairvoyance, Its Definition and Office 

LESSON II. 

Clairvoyance, Its Nature and Law of Manifesta- 
tion and Expression. The Trance 

LESSON III. 

Clairvoyance and Intuition Compared and Corre- 
lated 

LESSON IV. 

The Spirit Limited in Matter 

LESSON V. 

The Science of Optics, Materially and Spiritually 
Considered 

LESSON VI. 

Vibrations, Their Law in Relation to Light and 
Sight 

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IV 

PART IL 

LESSON VII. 

Spirit in Relation to Time and Space. The Sphere 
and Office of Matter 

LESSON VIII. 

Spirit in Relation to Control. The Uses of Mag- 
netism and Electricity. Hypnotism 

LESSON IX. 

Color, Its Definition and Meaning 

LESSON X. 

Clairvoyance and Consciousness in Relation to the 

Spiritual Perception 

LESSON XI. 

How Man is Unfolded in Inspiration. Clairvoy- 
ance and Psychometry. The Spirit's Labora- 
tory 

LESSON XII. 

The Higher Aspects of Clairvoyance 



PUBLISHER'S NOTE. 

This work is both novel and unique in its subject- 
matter as well as in the treatment of it. It is original, in- 
asmuch as it marks a new era in metaphysics and spiritual 
science. It is a book within a book. It is one of a series 
of Teachings which form, as the author sees fit to name it, 
a "System of Philosophy Concerning Divinity/' of which 
Psychometry is the first series, Clairvoyance the second, 
Inspiration the third and Psychopathy the fourth. Col- 
lectively, they establish a Rationale of Divinity. The author 
claims to be a seer; and while the philosophy herein declared 
and taught will satisfy the needs of those who recognize 
spirit, the spiritual nature and life of the world, its merits 
will and must stand the test of that invisible yet omnipotent 
Guide which shapes civilization and evolves consciousness. 
There is a growing faith in the Divinity of man and its 
potential functions. Supernaturalism as theologically con- 
ceived is scientifically absurd, but re-defined literally, that is, 
given a spiritual and not a dogmatic interpretation, sig- 
nifies the depth of a rational perception of Nature's forces 
and her unchanging law. Phenomena and noumena are 
correlative and coexistent in the sphere of causality. All 
is law, the embodiment and expression of law. The time 
will come when churchmen, like Professor Drummond and 
Lyman Abbott, will not be sacrificed upon the altar where 
the saintly Son of Man inspired their works in his name. 
England has paid dearly, she will yet pay more dearly, for the 
blood of a consecrated liberalism. The wine press is still 
red with the fruitage of a fading century and the new age 

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is framing a cross on Golgotha for the prophets of the 
future generations. Still the Voice in the Wilderness will 
not cease its celestial monotone. The prophet has his career, 
he must sow the seed, whatever the world may care for the 
harvest. It is destiny, it is Divinity. 

Speaking of this omnipresent law of the human con- 
sciousness, a reformer of note has written: "The inspired men 
are fewer. Whence their emanation, where and how they 
got their power, and by what rule they lived, moved, and 
had their being, we know not. There is no explication to 
their lives. They rose from shadow and they went in mist. 
We see them, feel them, but we know them not. They 
came, God's word upon their lips ; they did their office, God's 
mantle about them; and they passed away, God's holy light 
between the world and them, leaving behind a memory, half 
mortal and half myth. From first to last they were the 
creations of some special Providence, baffling the wit of 
man to fathom, defeating the machinations of the world, 
f:he flesh and the devil, and, their work done, passing from 
f:he scene as mysteriously as they had come upon it." So is 
it, and so it will ever be, while their vision and works leaven 
and idealize society. It is this law which the author of this 
book seeks to make clear and, quite naturally, to prove that 
man is the oracle of the Divine Presence. 

The reason why this book was published first is that 
it is less technical and will prepare the student for the other 
volumes of this remarkable System of Divinity. 



INTRODUCTION 

These Teachings constitute one of a series. It forms a 
rationale or system of instruction for the unfoldment of the 
spiritual gift (the natural endowment of all souls), com- 
monly designated Clairvoyance. This System of Philos- 
ophy is the simple solution of the mooted question of human 
clairvoyance. These Teachings are neither abnormal nor 
supernatural in origin, nor are they to be regarded as un- 
natural. They appeal to the reason and are the corollary of 
Nature's Law and Causation. 

Inspiration may be misunderstood, even denied, yet it 
is the most natural force in the world. Were it otherwise, it 
could not be. All thought is inspirational in character, 
source and end, and when truly analyzed establishes not 
only an a priori knowledge but the eternality of soul. 
Thought really is spirit vibration, and has its source, not 
in the brain, nor in any of its agencies or subordinate in- 
strumentalities, but in spirit. To understand this, it must be 
realized that even organism has its origin in spirit This 
we can both affirm and prove, for the soul is the basis, as 
it is the law, of all its functions. Organism and organs pre- 
suppose their spiritual prototype. Man as an entity, im- 
mured in matter, is to be analyzed spiritually as well as ma- 
terially; he is to be considered, not as an inverted pyramid, 
but in his true relation to what he is, as w r ell as what he 
manifests, that is, what is externalized. Organism is what it 
is, bcause soul is what it is. Never is man what he is be- 
cause organism is what it is. Spirit, the organizer and seat 
of intelligence, makes not only organism but organization 

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possible. Thus the brain is acted upon, never does it act 
per se. Thus organism obeys, never does it govern spirit. 
The brain demonstrates the existence of spirit, not its 
evolution or involution. Its office is to manifest spirit as 
a mirror reflects the image of a form. In itself it is non- 
existent, non-creative, non-evolutionary. Thought shines 
through it as light through a lens. The brain neither creates 
nor produces thought — it but reflects it. 

Thought as the effect of spirit is twofold in its mode of 
manifestation. Always remember it is from spirit, whether 
the spirit be on this plane or another, incarnate or excarnate, 
as these words are generically understood. Experience is 
thought realization. It is more than demonstration. 
Tuition is experience; intuition is inspiration. Tuition 
is inspiration realized. A line of demarcation should be 
drawn between intuition and inspiration as universally or 
philosophically interpreted and understood. Intuition is the 
source of truth from within — this we designate Divine In- 
spiration. Inspiration is thought from a spirit or from 
spirits in or out of the material form. When in the mortal 
form such inspiration may be called telepathy or thought 
transference, and is often induced by hypnotism. When not 
so induced, it is the direct or indirect transference of thought 
from plane to plane, through medial and harmonial con- 
ditions. 

That inspiration is possible to-day, as it was demon- 
strable throughout the history of the past, evidence of a 
various kind could be cited, all of which is unnecessary when 
the source of thought as interpreted by the true System of 
Divinity is fully understood. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 



To Our Beloved Classes Throughout the World: 

Beloved Ones: To you we extend our greetings. We 
meet you, as it were, across the silvery ocean of this life, 
beyond the valley of the shadow of death on this side of 
immortal life, not as strangers or sojourners in a strange 
land, but as those who feel the kinship of spirit, who have 
awakened to the law of life and soul, and who realize that 
time and space, nor life or death, nor principality, height 
or depth, can separate spirits. In this sacred marriage of 
our spiritual natures by aspiration and spirituality, by 
spheres and planes of reciprocal love, we are one, though 
seemingly disassociated and separated by death. We stand 
within the veil, ever drawn to you, our love for you and our 
devotion to the cause of Humanity, our consecration to 
the Supreme Good, as firm and persistent as when in the 
earth life. We played amid the shadows of the outward 
world as you now do and we listened to the music of the 
spheres as Nature vibrated it. Step by step, our unfoldment 
was realized, but little did we dream that every act, as every 
thread in the shuttle that moves to and fro in the loom of 
life, formed the character of our spiritual being. This is 
the lesson of error,the aim of evil, that, possessed of being, 
the soul should rise into its final expression, its apotheosis. 
The exercise of each organ, nerve, function, sense, faculty, 
perception of being, is for one purpose. All subordinate 
or collateral aims pay tribute to this purpose. It shines 
as the day star w T hen all other orbs of light are destroyed. 
It towers as a flame, unquenchable and divine, when all 
other fires within the bosom are extinguished. It attracts 
as it fashions the soul in every plane and sphere, and it is 
the light that lighteth everyone that cometh into the world, It 



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is the light of Divinity that unrolls the shadows of life and 
death, truth and error, love and evil, in relative spheres of ex- 
pression. It is the interpretation of the unchanging Law, of 
the Logos of religion, of the unspoken words of Mystics, of 
the knowledge of Science. It is, it governs Being. It is the 
Will of God. All success, material and spiritual, must be one 
with it or they fail in their ideals. No superficial planes 
or height of being will avail to make it other than a consum- 
ing flame when shadows play in its aureole. Civilization, 
progress, history, are measured by it. It is the absolute 
standard of light. As science is evidenced by demonstra- 
tion, so consciousness in its sphere of realization expresses 
the truth, this law, this apotheosis. As all drops of rain, as 
all springs, creeks and rivers are subject to the law of specific 
gravity of their elements and all tend to equipoise, so souls, 
in segregation and schools, move toward one end and one 
affinitization. Reality dictates the modes of spirit and 
psychic manifestation and expression. Life in every plane 
and sphere is harmonial and the exact illustration of the 
numerals in mathematical relations. Geometry is the ex- 
ponent of the soul's progress in the light of the square, tri- 
angle, star or double triangle and circle. Thus matter serves 
spirit and both reflect and obey the law that geometrizes 
mathematics. Mathematics illustrates Religion as Science 
evidences Inspiration. When either mathematics or in- 
spiration are comprehended, or when their law of relation 
is perceived, the conflict between spirit and matter, religion 
and science, spiritualism and materialism, is at an end, their 
integrity of essence and form will then be perceived and 
established. 

All thought in forms of tuition, intuition and inspira- 
tion, in outward symbols of manifestation and realization, 
are predicates of the soul's progress. Progress means "liter- 



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ally going in," and the path of life is literally a going in from 
the night of ignorance and unconsciousness (and we use the 
word as expressing a degree of light and knowledge) into 
the day of truth, and hence illumination or the attainment 
of Divinity or soul realization. Thus manifestation and ex- 
pression of spirit are for this purpose and this purpose only. 
Culture must then be radical, spiritual, as well as artistic, 
social and political, if it shall fulfill the end of Being. Edu- 
cation must be comprehensive, must include the science of 
the soul as well as matter, must include the philosophy of 
inspiration, as spiritualism teaches and reveals it, as well as 
sensuous knowledge, it must reach in as well as out for the 
surpassing light of Ra, if it is to lead mankind to a real 
height or an absolute attainment of spirit. To exist is not to 
live, as to die is not to reach oblivion or Heaven. Life is 
consciousness of duty and of duty obeyed and done. Thus 
all efforts for unfoldment should advance the spirit one 
degree nearer to deity. Thus, all attempt to confer with the 
denizens of another world should be for higher understand- 
ing of the Law of Being. Thus, every desire for spiritual 
or medial advancement, for the practical understanding and 
use of mediumship, whether of the mental or material char- 
acter, should be for the purpose of leading mankind to a 
knowledge of the truth. 

And as we draw near to you through these, our inspira- 
tions, we would impress upon your minds the necessity of 
thus co-laboring with us, that as light illumines you, so may 
it reflect unto others, that it may not come to pass in this 
century, as it was written of the first when the humble 
Nazarene walked the earth, "The light shone into the dark- 
ness but the darkness apprehended it not;" rather, that it may 
be said of you, 'The exceeding glory of the light shone all 
about them, so that men felt it to be good to be with them." 



12 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

This is the light which is revealed in the unfoldment of clair- 
voyance the science and philosophy of which we shall seek to 
teach you. Enter the temple of the spirit without fear, with 
clean hearts, and bow at the shrine where Love dictates 
her inspirations, and as each lesson is given to you accept of 
its inspirations and gradually the scales will fall from your 
outward eyes and the veil that conceals the spirit of your 
loved ones, even the angels, will be rent asunder, and you 
will be permitted to walk and talk with them. May "White 
Rose" teach you that angel love will lead you from above as 
it will inspire you from within until all things are fulfilled. 
White Rose, the Guiding Inspiration. 



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FIRST PRINCIPLES. 
Follow and obey them. 

1. Tranquilize the spiritual, mental and material condi- 
tions by becoming at one with the spirit. This is attained 
by approaching the spirit in an aspirational or prayerful 
mood; by being receptive to inspirations as the earth is 
receptive to rays of light; by being passive or negative in 
spirit, viz., positive to spirit incarnate and vibrations which 
play in the sea of materiality, and negative to spirit ex- 
carnate and vibrations which play in the sea of ethereality; 
by being calm and restful, not impatient, anxious, worldly, 
selfish in your duty to the spirit. Prepare, as it were, a 
mental state as smooth and glassy and as unruffled and 
unmarred by contrary vibrations as the placid bosom of a 
lake. Thus on or into the mind, as a mirror, the image of 
thought through the process of clairvoyance will appear 
as the Guiding Spirit wishes. 

2. The vision will be assisted in concentration by fixing 
the eye on a clear glass filled with clear water (aqua pura), 
and watching, as it were, the scenes that appear and dis- 
appear. This is simply suggested as an aid and not as a 
necessity for those whose minds are distracted and whose 
vision will not respond to the will or spirit Place the glass 
on a stand and have about it, when impressed, fresh flowers. 
Sit at least six feet from the stand. Change the water at eacfc 
sitting. 

3. Sit uniformly at stated times and place and three 
times a week, thirty minutes each time. Have the atmos- 



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phere in the room cool and fresh and free of all animal and 
vegetable impurities. 

4. Sit in a dimly lighted room and alternate with total 
darkness. When sitting in the dark, correlate all impres- 
sions, that is, subjective phenomena, with all manifestations, 
or objective phenomena, of the spirit. Observe the "lights," 
forms, faces, symbols, names, places, that are shown to you and 
watch the development or developing process through which 
you are taken. Note how conditions are prepared for the 
reflection of an idea in the mind and thence (through mind) 
on matter. Observe how faces, figures, etc., are formed out 
of the magnetic waves that play in your atmosphere and 
perceive how, by holding the thought, the spirits weave 
about it a form or image with which they clothe it, and 
which, when fully manifest, becomes an etherealization or a 
materialization. 

5. Sit alone. Avoid promiscuous circles and influences. 
Sit with and follow the guidance of no media, lest your de- 
velopment be destroyed, the forces scattered and the guid- 
ance set at naught. 

6. Sit when conditions can be best adapted to the work 
at hand. The morning or evening hours are the best. 

7. Sit facing the East, that you may be in line with the 
spiritual or electrical wave currents which move eastward 
from the West. At night sleep with head to the North by 
East. 

8. A very light lunch before retiring is allowed. 

9. Be uniform in diet, sleep,, habits, recreations. 

10. Pursue a vegetarian diet. Avoid, so far as it is 
possible, meats, stimulants, tobaccos, condiments, all greasy 
substances. 

11. Live a pure, unselfish life, as spirituality has much 
to do with clairvoyance. It furnishes a clear atmosphere for 



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the spirit and thus extends the range of vision by furnishing 
a lucidity for definition and penetration. 

12. Music is a valuable accessory and helps to bring 
about the necessary concentration. 

13. As unfoldment means a gradual attainment of 
Divinity, clairvoyance is subject to the law that governs 
Divinity. Do not force results, but remember that though 
you are unaware, you through effort are reaching the end 
in view, and by holding the forces, and cooperating with 
(and not by grieving) the spirit, you will attain to that soul 
elevation where, as in a mirror, the spiritual universe will 
appear reflected. This w 7 ill be neither a mirage of the vision 
nor a delusion of the senses, but a fact of Being. Go often 
with the Son of Man, the Teacher of Galilee, to the moun- 
tains and not only pray there but breathe the lessons of the 
heights. 

14. Keep the body and clothes you wear clean. 

15. During the process of unfoldment, go where the 
best music and lectures may be heard and where paintings 
and scenery of a high order may be seen. Above all, live 
a simple, natural life, and keep close to Mother Nature. 

16. Read the best books on all subjects that lie within 
your sphere, and seek for knowledge everywhere. Medium- 
ship, and its unfoldment, depend for its practice upon in- 
spiration and education. 

A WORD ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTS. 

It is not intended that the experiments which follow 
each lesson should be applied abstractly; rather, they should 
be tried in all conditions of life and environments, as they 
are susceptible to manifold variations and implications. 
They are both esoteric and exoteric in character and touch 



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necessarily upon the field occupied by Psychometry. How- 
ever, if the student will apply himself diligently to them, 
caring the most for successful results, and the least for pre- 
disposed prejudices as to their impracticability or for the 
antecedent condemnation of the Mother Grundys of both 
Physical, Social and Psychological Science or the ipse dixit 
of self-elected infallibility, that spirit of research and conse- 
cration will bring their rewards, 



LESSON I. 

Clairvoyance. Its Definition and Office. 

In this series of Teachings we shall not attempt nor 
seek to effect the impossible. We are aware that clairvoy- 
ance, together with every other gift of the spirit, is the 
natural possession of all beings; we are aware that, whatever 
may be its definition or office, it has a place in the domain 
or Nature, as is attested by the history of the alleged 
"miraculous"; we are aware that though it is a faculty or 
possession of the mind denied by the agnostic and material 
scientist on the general ground that spirit as such has no 
existence separable from brain or organism (which position 
has been proven false by the recent phenomena of hyp- 
notism, mind reading and telepathy) ; yet we maintain that 
clairvoyance is the natural seeing of all creatures. The 
seemingly Strange and inexplicable phenomena of clairvoy- 
ance, though repudiated by certain scientists as the result 
of abnormal action of the mind or as the effect of hallucina- 
tion and hysteria, have made a very profound impression on 
a more earnest class of scientists, who, like the eminent 
Prof. Alfred Wallace, Crookes, Zollner and others, have 
applied an intuitive test, nay, have applied even a material 
test, and found them to belong to a psychic realm, in short, 

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found them to be just what they purported to be. The 
mental as well as the physical phases or forms of the spiritual 
manifestations respond to their specific tests and prove by 
so doing their sphere or place in the range of Nature's 
phenomena. The Spirit, whatever may be the hypothesis of 
its origin or composition, is one of Nature's possessions, and 
by this we mean, it, as truly as any so-called elements, has a 
sphere in the universe and is explicable by her unchanging 
law. By Nature, we mean the realm inclusive of all forms of 
life. Spirit demonstrates its being as well as powers through 
the medium of Nature, and in the sea of her causation or 
law, it expresses itself. Whatever may be its wonderful and 
eternal endowment, Nature receives the reflection of it in 
her realm of causes and effects. She is the sea in which 
spirit swims, as ether is the medium that permeates all 
matter, and into this sea, as a mirror, the spirit reveals 
itself. The subtle and indivisible consciousness, inexplic- 
able to both the scientist and philosopher, manifests here in 
Nature with no less concern for and obedience to Law as the 
elementary compositions of matter and force. Psychology, 
as well as physics, belongs to Nature and her processes, and 
there is naught anywhere in the domain of being that is 
not comprehended by Nature. This being at once admitted 
and true, the difficulty in the way of a clear and perfect 
understanding of spirit in the sphere and light of its phe- 
nomena has been, first, the limitations which men of science 
or theology put to Nature and the ability of Nature to reveal 
or manifest spirit through her processes, and, secondly, the 
lack of perception of the interior workings or divine im- 
manency which establishes the phenomenal world in and on 
the noumenal world. That there is uniform causation in 
Nature, or that Nature herself must be uniform in her causa- 
tion, follows the rejection of the alleged supernatural or 



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interposition or interference of Deity; and that such is the 
natural order, experience and knowledge prove; but, 
that in the consideration of causation, however uniform, 
where there is unchanging law, science or theology should 
affirm the impossibility of spirit power as spiritual manifesta- 
tions exhibit it, that it is no part and corollary of this causa- 
tion, is unquestionably presumptuous, if not prejudical in 
the extreme. Spirit may copy or plagiarize the uniform 
causation in its own laboratories where, as in seances for 
the display of all kinds of materialization, spirit excarnate 
repeat them by processes both chemical and natural, though 
subtler and finer in sphere and action, just as a chemist re- 
combines the elements of hydrogen, sulphur and oxygen 
into a formula of sulphuric acid, or in a more simple way 
combines hydrogen and oxygen to form water. This we 
call copying or plagiarizing Nature. The elements exist 
and cannot be recreated by any spirit incarnate or excarnate, 
but through a knowledge of Nature, her law and proc- 
esses spirit can combine and recombine by Nature's own 
formula what is eternal and inherent in herself. So, in like 
manner, the spiritual manifestations of the seance room 
which bear a likeness to the forms of Nature in the garden of 
the earth compare really with all physical phenomena of 
Nature, inasmuch as they are fashioned after them, are, in 
plain words, materialized and de-materialized by compliance 
with her law. It takes spirit on either plane to affect the 
result. The question which we shall ask the materialist to 
answer is, what does he know of Nature per se, or beyond 
the horizon of visible causes and effects which he terms 
Nature? He knows absolutely nothing. Without access to 
the knowledge which inspiration, intuition or the so-called 
dead give, he sees, as he examines, but the hemisphere of 
the universe, one and that the shadowy or phenomenal side 



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of life. He knows naught of another world or form of life 
beyond the change called death. He doubts, he denies, he 
condemns all such affirmation of knowledge on the part of 
his equally wise, perhaps wiser opponent, and with igno- 
rance and denial as his weapons, he seeks to answer intelli- 
gently the above question. We hold that he has no right 
to attempt to answer the question at all without investigating 
the grounds of his opponent, and then not, unless, freed 
from pride and prejudice, he will accept what is demon- 
strable to his reason. 

And what we here say concerning the material forms 
of the spiritual phenomena, plagiarized from Nature by ex- 
carnate spirit in the seance room of media, is equally true 
of the higher order of phenomena, the mental, such as clair- 
voyance and clairaudience, which are but kinds of the same 
phenomena of spirit, are explicable by law. Seeing and 
hearing spiritually is not impossible when it is remembered 
that it is the only kind of seeing and hearing that is possible ; 
but when even the seeing or hearing becomes inexplicable 
by the formula of science, when it must be accounted for 
by a causation, larger and more comprehensive than that of 
the books of the Royal Academy of Science, even then, it is 
none the less natural, none the less within the domain of 
Nature, none the less the effect of causation. The fact is, the 
word causation, as the word God, has been made a fetish 
and an unalterable and immovable concept of human under- 
standing, whereas, the growing mind of man has given 
it each day and year a larger and more inclusive realm of 
definition. Mankind no longer accepts but rejects the myth- 
ology of the Israelites, Greeks, Romans, Hindus, Indians, 
but religion has not become less a fact by the disintegration 
and destruction of fetishism. So, also, in the realm of 
science and philosophy, systems of thought have been de- 



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vised by noble minds and each created a concept or formula 
of truth, yet larger and deeper, seemingly, grew the ocean 
of truth as each life touched its waters. The ocean received 
the river of each one's thoughts, but lost apparently not an 
atom of itself. So to this same causation we turn for the 
definition and interpretation of clairvoyance. And, pos- 
sessed of its facts or phenomena, you have a right to re- 
ject any system of religion, science, or philosophy that 
first repudiates them and then denies clairvoyance as mani- 
fest, demonstrated and established by them; so that there 
should be no barrier to progress in the accumulation of 
knowledge and the freedom of the soul's life and expression 
of thought. This is the true scientific spirit that should 
characterize our attitude to truth and demand a conformity, 
not to obsolete formulas of science or theology, but to facts, 
a readjustment of thought and thinking to the truth that 
must now as always shape its present and future definitions. 
Clairvoyance is really, by definition, clear seeing. It is 
the awakened and awakening consciousness, and as such 
comprehends all that is designated by eyes, senses, faculties, 
intuition, mind and spirit. Among the Greeks it was likened 
to Apollo, who bore the flame of Jove around the world in a 
torch of piercing light, and by the Egyptians it was likened 
to the all-seeing eye that never slept. Consciousness, as we 
here designate clairvoyance, is the most inclusive synonym 
that could possibly be employed to illustrate "seeing;" for be- 
tween seeing and perceiving, or "seeing through" anything, 
there is but a slight shade of difference of thought or mean- 
ing. To see anything, as the phrase is commonly used, is to 
see the outw r ard form or proportions, and thus to understand 
the superficial definition ; to see through anything is to see 
it not only in outward form but in essence, or as it is, and 
thus to perceive it and receive a true conception or definition 



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of it. Seeing thus leads to perceiving, and may be called 
the means whereby one sees. Yet what we here teach con- 
cerning seeing in contradistinction to perceiving must not 
be given a literal signification, but it must be taken in the 
broad, spiritual sense. Seeing is instrumental to perceiv- 
ing, so far as material things, that is, the forms of entities, 
are concerned, but mind, spirit, soul, is basic to all seeing or 
perceiving. Organically the eye serves the so-called sense 
of sight; the sense of sight serves the mind; the mind serves 
spirit, and the spirit serves the soul in all that outworks 
destiny. The spirit is seemingly duplex and reflex in char- 
acter and action, and by this w T e mean it is concerned with 
the objective and subjective realm of life. The objective is 
comprehended by the material and the subjective by the 
spiritual universe. The spirit thus constituted receives 
upon its lens, the mind impressions from these two realms 
and it perceives them, according to its lucidity or 
ability to realize them. Thus, while impressions from the 
spiritual universe are constantly impinging on the mind, 
just as impressions from the material universe are floating 
in through the organ of the eye or sense of sight or feeling 
(for the veritable blind can "see" by feeling and thus form 
definitions of objects), few, indeed, are able to define such 
impressions or realize them as such, or even draw a line of 
demarcation between those that enter from the objective 
and those that enter from the subjective realm. This is due 
to the fact that mortals have not been so trained as to 
analyze impressions, or it is because of false theories of con- 
sciousness and false psychologies; thus they have re- 
garded the mind or outward consciousness as the factor 
of sensation and thought, and have been concerned only 
with what is external, the objective or material realm of 
life. Cognition has as a result been limited by the necessity 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 23 

of the case to sensuous knowledge, and the ocean of inspira- 
tion has been regarded as a mirage of the mind, having no 
real existence in the desert of earth forms and life; whereas 
this very ocean is causal and fundamental to all that pro- 
ceeds from or recedes into it. This character of the spirit 
or mind being once recognized, more careful attention and 
scrutiny can be given to all that manifests itself in it, and, 
more than this, a most perfect scope and definition of con- 
sciousness and the far-reaching extent of clairvoyance can 
be had. The objective and subjective realm are one in one 
perfect correlation and integrity of law. As each atom 
rotates on its axis in obedience to the law that revolves the 
planet earth and establishes the polarity of the sun, yet serves 
a purpose in its own sphere of action and serves it without 
mar or jar, so the mind acts in this twofold manner obedient 
to the principles that establish soul. If a definition of the 
forms of things as materially understood can be had through 
mind and the outward vision or sense of sight, surely a defi- 
nition of the forms of things as spiritually understood can be 
had through mind and the inward vision or consciousness. 
If spirit is the eye that sees and perceives, then it has access 
to its own realm, that of spirit in the objective and sub- 
jective sense and form. This is self-evident and follows the 
admission that the spiritual universe is (as the facts of life, 
of spirit excarnate prove). 

This consciousness is the center of thought radiation 
where impressions meet and where they are perceived and 
received. This fact must be understood in the very beginning 
of our Teachings and the relation and principle of it thor- 
oughly mastered or what will follow will be ambiguous and 
confusing. 

The mind is a lens of the spirit, but it is spiritual in its 
character and composition, more so than the sensory, as the 



24 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

organ of the eye is the material lens of the mind. Con- 
sciousness, in the final or absolute sense, bears just such an 
intermediary relation to its various subordinate lenses in the 
organism of soul. We teach that the soul is the primate or 
basis of all organism, and when this is understood in the 
highest sense, it cannot be said that the material form of 
organism does not bear a relation to organism in itself or as 
a function of soul. 

The type is the basis ; it establishes all of its forms which 
are but its manifestations, and from it as to it proceed the mul- 
tiplicity of relations which form the network or chain of its 
operations. The system of muscles, veins, nerves, might, in an 
organic sense, be construed to be complete, if you begin from 
primates, as brain, will, spirit, or the functions of brain, such 
as the sensory, nerves, and heart, for which they stand; yet 
they are correlated in order of form to the type which 
more really approaches and bears a similitude to organism 
as spiritually comprehended. Neither of them could act 
independently, and yet each one does an independent work. 
Neither of them could exist in the spirit independently, and 
yet each has a specific office and work in the divine ar- 
rangement. So, in this way, a similar congruity and har- 
mony of relation and action exist between the organ eye, 
the sense of vision and the sensory where the sensations of 
outward visions are collected, and the mind, spirit and soul, 
in the consciousness which is the basis of them all; and the 
prototype is found in the spiritual counterpart which is, at 
once and simultaneously in action, the original basis of 
them. Thus, from the center of soul, the consciousness 
opens the mystic all-seeing eye, veiled by the arrangement 
which is defined by materiality or material expression. 

Now could you see in the real sense, the need of the 
eye, senses and mind would prove useless, but inasmuch as 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 25 

consciousnss is awakened by the process through which you 
pass, in seeing, seeing thus through eyes, senses and mind, 
you become aware of yourself to that degree that you are able 
to rise above or to dispense with them. By this we mean, 
you cease to use them or they have served their office organ- 
ically and functionally when the greater consciousness has 
appeared and you, with the consciousness that you have un- 
folded or realized, cease to utilize what is no longer helpful 
or necessary. Think of a germ employing a sheaf or shell 
or chrysalis out of which, as from a sepulcher, the life rises 
into a resurrection of new and higher forms of manifestation. 
Think of a man clinging to the mind of childhood, after a 
higher and deeper consciousness has unfolded through the 
use of this same infantile mind; think of a bird going back 
into the shell, after its wings have cut the air, and its eye has 
caught the light of day; think of the soul sighing to re- 
enter the womb of generating forms, after it has kissed the 
face of parent and received the caress of love from the 
denizens of earth and heaven. So, in like manner, not lost, 
but consumed, not neglected, but utilized, the soul enters 
through each form of organism, through even the mind 
and the spirit, into a clearer and more absolute state of 
consciousness and Divinity. 

The fact is, that in the process of evolution the mind with 
organism obeys the involution of soul. All order and life, in 
expression, proceed by impulses. Impulse is born of the 
principle that shapes the soul's apotheosis, and each impulse 
is in mathematical ratio to the other and in the succession 
of impulses, one order leads each and all. It is as the cor- 
puscles of the blood that obey the beating or impulse of the 
heart, or the waves of the ocean or tides thereof that follow 
the impulse of the magnetic and electrical seas that influx 
the worlds. Not chaos, but order, is Nature's law. And as 



26 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

in each atom the impulse throbs obedient to that in the 
galaxy, so, in like manner, the will of God or Nature (as 
you please) shapes and vibrates all subordinate waves of 
motion that move to and fro in the loom of life. Thus the 
eye conforms not only to the impulse of the original type 
of consciousness (which is to be realized), but to that form of 
the type of consciousness, the mind, which now is; or, vice 
versa, consciousness conforms to the extreme limit of it in 
materiality, the eye, which sees because mind is in touch 
organically with it. The office of the eye is to serve soul in 
this effort to unfold consciousness. And in so doing, in 
seeing and then perceiving the definition of things in the 
objective and subjective realm, clairvoyance truly and really 
is attained. 

We necessarily draw a line of demarcation between 
clairvoyance and mediumship and clairvoyance as here em- 
ployed in the thought of the unfolded and unfolding con- 
sciousness; and yet, as there is no phase of clairvoyance 
which is not beautifully at one with and productive of 
consciousness in this sense of development or awakening, 
each has its place and serves a purpose. A clairvoyance 
which concerns the subjective realm, as a clairvoyance that 
concerns the objective realm, merely for outward definitions 
of forms of essence, is a clairvoyance of "seeing" but not 
a clairvoyance of "perceiving." Seeing is but beholding 
images of forms impressed upon the mind; perception is 
realizing the purpose ; and if appropriated, it is gaining lucid- 
ity of consciousness, by which a clear vision of higher and 
more subtler spheres and planes of life may be realized. 

You are here advised to adhere strictly to this purpose 
of clairvoyance and to seek for the attainment and ad- 
vancement of this interior consciousness wherein is revealed 
more than in the mind alone, which is changeable and which 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 27 

serves, as it awaits upon it, the surpassing light from within 
the soul, in which, as in the light of the outward sun, can be 
seen, not only forms of things, but their definition and prin- 
ciple of action, composition and relation, and by which the 
apotheosis may be reached. He that will climb to this 
height will be rewarded by the ethers that condition his at- 
titude of vision and the view that stretches out before him, 
but he that loiters in the valley and will not ascend the 
mountain, who gazes at the heaven without and within 
through the atmospheres that mar and befog his terrestrial 
and celestial vision, will miss the object of these Teachings. 
Clairvoyance will be the means of reaching the new heaven 
and the new earth within the realm designated by time and 
space and comprehended by the senses, but it will establish 
an altar and a shrine in each home where mortals may com- 
mune and where the angels, ministrant upon earth's chil- 
dren, may approach, that both thereby may receive the light 
and benediction of the skies, the cooperation of the spirit 
world all about us. 



28 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



FIRST EXPERIMENT. 

Place the glass or goblet of clear, crystal water on the 
table. Become very passive and negative. Concentrate 
upon it and observe the pictures that manifest themselves. 
After the sitting note the same on paper and make compari- 
sons with successive experiments. Be careful to note 
whether these pictures are from the objective or subjective 
realm. 



LESSON II. 

Clairvoyance — Its Nature and Law of Manifestation. 

We have shown that consciousness in the sphere and 
light of clairvoyance and that clairvoyance in the sphere and 
light of consciousness are fundamental to a definition of 
being. We have sought to elucidate how as the con- 
sciousness is unfolded, both seeing and perceiving become 
more marked and extended, if not more penetrative and 
piercing in their respective spheres of action. What obtains 
in one sphere and plane of vision, so far as the nature of 
clairvoyance is concerned, obtains with precisely the same 
purpose in successive spheres and planes. There may be 
a variety of manifestations in the one mode or many modes 
of expression or unfoldment. Yet never do the manifesta- 
tions outgrow the purpose of them, never does the expres- 
sion exceed in sovereignty the end which it subserves. In- 
variable and immutable is the nature of clairvoyance, and 
this is at once the magnificent and wonderful attribute of 
consciousness, because this nature waits upon conscious- 
ness. What is true of optics, or the material science of 
seeing, is true of consciousness, and vice versa. Con- 
sciousness is spiritually constructed as the outward 
eye is materially, but on a far greater and deeper 

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30 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

plan. There is no radical difference, but a similar 
relation between them. This must be so to insure or to es- 
tablish perfect unity of action. As in mechanics, as is illus- 
trated in machinery, there is a coordination existing be- 
tween the principles of dynamics, generically understood, 
and the principles of instruments, between the principles of 
motion and the principles of agency or matter, and the 
brain or mind of man who invents the machine which is 
to serve him, as well as to be the field of his operation; so, 
between the eye, the brain and the mind, in the larger 
sphere of the spirit and soul, there is a unity of design, pur- 
pose and action. It has been assumed that if this is so, then 
the eye should reflect in materiality all that is potent in con- 
sciousness. So it does, but scientists have excluded data 
which in psychology and spiritual science have declared an 
a priori knowledge and consciousness. Hence men in all 
periods of history, like doubting Thomas, have failed to 
grasp the spiritual or esoteric signification of such analogy. 
"Show us the Father," said doubting Thomas to Jesus, "and 
it sufficeth us." And the "I am in the Father and the Father 
in Me" still remains a mystery to the whole order of material- 
ists, who, like Thomas, fail to perceive the divine immanency 
in matter or in man. Such must become transcendentalists 
before they reach a correct interpretation of spirit or matter 
in relation to each other. The design of consciousness is 
seen in each function or instrument which it uses, and as 
each function is a branch or part of the total mechanism or 
organism of the body, in which and through which the 
spirit operates, the material design and integrity are only 
perceived when correctly defined by and correlated to con- 
sciousness, which organism subserves as it foreshadows. 
But the nature of the eye reveals the law that defines the 
nature of mind and consciousness. As in an apple, the 



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nature of a part is that of the whole, and the apple is in 
maturity what it is in the fact of seed, or tree, so permeating 
the whole material frame of spirit, the nature of the con- 
sciousness is revealed. In this sense, the eye becomes at 
once the key to the nature of clairvoyance. For if in it or on 
it the nature of consciousness is manifest, then the purpose 
of consciousness, as we understand it, in the light of clair- 
voyance, will be perceived. Deeper and broader the vision 
may become, but the nature of it will remain unalterably the 
same. The eye is the citadel where "you," the personality, 
is posited to receive the impressions which play upon and 
enter your sphere or vision. You see and perceive them, and 
in so doing, reveal the nature of spirit and consciousness 
in the light of clairvoyance. 

Two conditions enter into the ability of seeing, in the 
objective and subjective realms, in the material and spiritual 
universe. The first is "light" in the material, and, second, 
light in the spiritual sense. The organ of seeing, the eye, 
has no ability to see in itself; for if it had there would be no 
need of mind. It might, as a mirror or a placid lake, hold 
images of outward things in its myriad of lenses, but these 
would vanish with its own disintegration; but, even in such 
an instance, light is necessary for reflection. There is no re- 
flection without light, which must give or make the reflec- 
tion possible. Thus the eye could receive no image of out- 
ward things in darkness except darkness which is a form 
of light and holds concealed in it all definition of things. 
The light of the sun, moon and stars, or artificial light, is 
absolutely necessary for a material definition of things ; and 
only where this light obtains can the mind cognize sensa- 
tions which carry from the world of phenomena to the world 
of spirit the results of seeing. But, on the other hand, ex- 
pose the inoperative organism of any person, the house 



32 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

vacated by the tenant, to the light of the sun, and when life 
is extinct the light of the world has. no message to the 
spirit. The transition of the spirit from mortal life puts an 
end, for the time, to both sensation and seeing, as literally 
understood, and this light, which makes a definition of 
things possible, has served its purpose, so far as this per- 
son is concerned. It bears no sensations to it. The body 
does not feel, though it may receive the ravages of disease, 
and while light plays about old and decaying forms, the life 
or spirit receives none of its potencies. It has reached a 
realm where the need of the light of sun, moon, stars and 
candles has ceased. Eliminate, if you can, in the problem 
of the soul's apotheosis, the mind as the lens of the spirit, 
upon which a' e impressed and through which are perceived 
the sensations and images of sensations from the outward 
world, and light, as thus received, would fall as it does in 
the spaces about us, but, by virtue of the divine arrangement 
of the human frame to mind and spirit, not one ray of light 
is lost. As long as consciousness is maintained through the 
mind in organism, so long does the light from without serve 
its purpose. Some see little, others see more, as the degree 
of consciousness perceives, but the end is reached in all. 

There is, however, a perfect and beautiful correlation 
and adaptability of rays of the light of soul to rays which are 
regarded as material in character and derived by chemical 
processes and combinations. For it is these rays of light 
from within the soul which, interblending with and corre- 
lating themselves to the material rays of light, that make 
"vision" or seeing at all possible. There is, then, the light 
of consciousness as well as the light of manifestation or 
matter. One rules phenomena and the material universe, 
the other spirit and the spiritual universe. In sphere of law 
and action both reveal the same nature. There is harmony 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 33 

existing between the eye and material rays of light, and 
the consciousness and the spiritual rays of light, and both 
are interlinear, that is, one in one and one in many and vice 
versa, in every plane and sphere of consciousness. For in- 
stance, a child, in approaching knowledge from without, sees 
outwardly in relations or definitions of things only that which 
the spiritual rays of light from within the soul give it to see. 
In other words, though the whole w r orld is lit by the light of 
the sun, it sees it but not to perceive it, and the latter occurs 
as the former only really when the perfection of the sphere 
of light within and without is attained. Thus experience 
waits upon inspiration and tuition upon intuition, and 
science upon revelation in the seons of time and eternity. 
Thus the development or education of the child is from 
within outwardly, both in the seeing and perceiving of rays 
of light and what they define from and in both realms. This 
light of consciousness is the light that never was on land or 
sea, because it has its residence only in the soul, and must 
there be perceived and realized. It is called the light of truth 
and to spirit excarnate it is the light of the spirit from within 
its own mystic realm. This light is the law of material light 
and dictates its phenomena. Its spectrum is uniformly the 
same. Its colors have the same signification. As there is 
one white light in both the material and spiritual universe, 
the nature of both are the same. Both interact harmoniously 
to reveal consciousness. This nature of clairvoyance of 
which we speak is the law of consciousness that makes clair- 
voyance the source or means of acquiring truth. If you 
would form two circles and in one place the sun at the 
center and in the other the spirit, through which the spirit- 
ual as in the other the material rays of light proceed, and 
make each degree a ray of light, paralleling the other in both 
circles, you would form a clearer notion of what we seek 



34 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

to teach by the inter-relation of the two forms of light. 
Number one in the circle of the sun corresponds and inter- 
acts with number one in the circle of the spirit, and ever in 
mathematical ratio and geometrical progression. As the 
unchanging law destinates both circles, a turn from one 
toward two designates a higher unfoldment of conscious- 
ness; when number three hundred and sixty degrees is 
attained the spirit has ended its expression, it passes through 
the change called death and outworks other degrees in the 
succeeding circles of spirit. Be it not forgotten that one de- 
gree designates a circle in itself where spirit and matter 
interplay in this field of twofold light. The attainment of 
the soul's victory over matter is achieved in this transition 
in the circle of soul. Thus the manifestation of clairvoyance 
is obedient to this unchanging law which opens the vision 
as it deepens the consciousness, and which reveals inspira- 
tion and spiritual rays of light as earth spheres are utilized 
and states of consciousness realized. The law of clairvoy- 
ance is one of progressive seeing and perceiving according 
to our diagram, which, if esoterically understood, will be- 
come the formula for solving history and civilization. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 35 



SECOND EXPERIMENT. 

Sit in quiet concentration of spirit and form in your 
mind's eye an image of some one near and dear to you in 
spirit. Watch its formation and appearance and notice how 
it gradually becomes a spirit impression. Now, see, it clothes 
itself in the habiliments of spirit, and in the picture there 
are scenes presented. Try this experiment over and over 
and again and the transition from sense to spirit will be made 
and you will enter the realm of spirit at w r ill. 



LESSON III. 

Clairvoyance and Intuition Compared and Correlated. 
It is very necessary that the student of the spirit should 
have a clear and, so far as possible, a perfect definition of 
the relation which clairvoyance sustains to intuition. We 
have in a general way defined them as the "perceptions" of 
the spirit, but as this word is vague, ambiguous, and to some 
very misleading, it will be wise for us to make this word per- 
ception, as well as our definition of both clairvoyance and 
intuition, more absolute. In the first place, whatever human 
nature manifests, that the spirit reveals and possesses. 
Naught can come through the mind or into the realm of 
mind, without originating first in the spirit. The type refers 
to the prototype and vice versa. Human nature by phrenol- 
ogists has been designated a faculty and is said to occupy a 
special place in the frontal brain, closely associated with 
the perceptions. It comprehends the perceptions in the out- 
ward sense or use of the word and is closely allied with the 
vision, the individuality, the ego or entity. The fact is that in 
human nature, in this broad sense, the first gleam of the 
more occult consciousness came, for here, as it were, the 
angel of the skies prepared the way for and opened the door 
to the mystic realm of soul. In this department of mind 
the echo of the celestial voices first was heard and here the 

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CLAIRVOYANCE. 37 

soul became aware, through both the subjective and ob- 
jective form of spirit manifestations, of its own immortality. 
Human nature, however, is not a faculty. It is a term that 
faintly designates that nature which is one with, nay, is the 
identical consciousness or ego which has to do with the 
material universe in its subjective and objective forms. 
Mark, there is a subjective and objective side or character 
to both the spiritual and material universe, and, the soul 
has to do with both in the realm of consciousness. Objective 
refers to whatever belongs to ethereality or materiality and 
has to do with planes of inhabitation and expression, while 
subjective refers to spirituality and has to do with spheres of 
life or consciousness. Human nature is the extreme limit 
of consciousness, materially viewed, and is like conscious- 
ness duplex, so to speak, in its workings and character. 
Could you, as an illustration, conceive of a mirror that could 
reflect what is within and without its own reflecting power, 
you would then have an idea of the power of the mind in 
general and of human nature in particular, as subjectively 
and objectively understood. Here in the realm of human 
nature the soul reaches out for the definition of reality and 
here it derives, by so doing, the definition of conscious- 
ness. Here it employs all that is potent in clairvoyance 
and intuition and at the same time shapes the objective by 
the subjective realization. In plain w T ords, it derives by and 
through human nature the ability which is latent in con- 
sciousness and is expressed in the office of human nature, 
to enter deeper and still deeper into the uses and purposes of 
both clairvoyance and intuition. So that it comes to pass, in 
the natural evolution of human nature, as phrenology will 
attest, that such as are well developed in it are naturally both 
highly intuitive and clairvoyant, that is, they can exercise the 
more occult faculty of perceiving. We should guard the 



38 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

student from accepting too broad an interpretation of even 
this statement, for we do not mean that one who simply 
acquires by seeing a knowledge of the world is to that degree 
more perceptive, but we mean that as observation leads to 
generalization, and as a knowledge of one fact to a synthesis 
of many facts, so the changes in the mind take place, as the 
law of human nature is fulfilled. Human nature is a posses- 
sion and refers to a state of the consciousness. It cannot be 
acquired by any artificial "learning" or adaptability to envi- 
ronments, but, though latent and dormant in all, it must be 
evolved by the same law that rules clairvoyance and intuition. 
Some, indeed, may be deficient in it but efficient in clairvoy- 
ance and intuition, but this deficiency is due to the fact that 
human nature has fulfilled its mission and has given place to 
what is higher and more absolute. This is and will be so 
as the human race evolves a higher and at the same time 
a more spiritual consciousness and civilization. Nature 
avoids excesses and utilizes vacuum. She has no use for and 
need of any superfluity. Whatever in form has served its 
end in expression, that she at once disintegrates and de- 
stroys. She adapts herself to the new conditions as spirit 
outworks the deeper and diviner consciousness. And as 
the end as well as tendency of evolution is toward synthesis 
or unity, from facts to truth, or from laws to law, so she 
hastens toward one in all her manifestation and expressions 
— one apotheosis. Means lead to ends and organism to con- 
sciousness in the idea of reality. Always, however, does 
reality in the consciousness dictate and outwork the end 
through the seemingly infinite variety of forms. Thus, as 
human nature reaches the sphere of clairvoyance or intuition, 
it ceases to be potent as such and yields to the sphere of 
vision and potency of Nature that it has attained. In other 
words, it becomes subject to a quicker and sublimer grade 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 39 

of vibrations and is impressed with a more instantaneous* im- 
pingement of light from within, which gives it its action and 
seemingly independent regnancy. Let it not be forgotten 
that all spirit in the unfoldment of all grades and spheres of 
seeing and perceiving passed through the geography of 
human nature. It is in no sense true that highly intuitive 
and clairvoyant natures are such by a special dispensation 
of Divine Providence. God is no respecter of persons, and 
what is for one is for all and what is possessed or manifest by 
one can be and is to be manifested by all. Thus the un- 
changing law holds all in its sphere of Divinity. The fact 
is, the races of mankind follow a geometrical ratio of 
progression, and in this ratio the unknown quantity is 
really the most known, should be the most understood. 
Jesus, Socrates, Appolonius, Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, 
all were apparently unknown quantities in the geometrical 
order of progression, for was it not said of them and as a 
proof of the saying were they not all persecuted and finally 
martyred: "They came to their own and their own re- 
ceived them not?' 1 Yet they were the known quantities to 
the seers, to those whose eyes were opened; they w 7 ere the 
day star of the new age and generation, upon whose works 
the civilization of the future outwove her fairest revelations. 
Indeed, because this is so, the Divinity and deathlessness of 
consciousness are assured. These faculties are but the inlets 
to the ocean that vibrates within the limitations of organism, 
bearing to these outward shores of life argosies freighted 
with the golden fruitage of Eden bowers and filled with the 
sunlight of the inspirations of the Light of the World. And 
each faculty, as we designate it, ceases as such when the 
consciousness needs it no longer as an avenue for expression. 
Thus memory becomes an open book, in which the past, 
present and future can be read, when you have outgrown 



4 o CLAIRVOYANCE. 

the use of it as defined by your prejudice of it. When you 
do not believe that it is allied thus to consciousness, when 
you limit it to the earth plane, when you make it and its 
office but a servant of your conscience and consciousness, 
then wonder not that the full potency and radiance of the 
all-seeing eye are denied you. 

Herein, then, lies the mystery of perception, that em- 
bodied in and utilized by human nature ; it unfolds its power 
and sphere as human nature serves its end; but its law is the 
law for all that follows it in the domain of consciousness. 

Perception is the word which designates the more in- 
terior faculty of seeing and has to do with realization. Hu- 
man nature is the perception specialized, that is, embodied 
in a source of analysis based on observation. To perceive 
anything is to utilize human nature. Here the spirit derives 
its susceptibility to consciousness in the sphere of evolution. 
Consciousness, as a quality of the soul, is as eternal as soul 
and is not produced by organism or the processes through 
which the soul becomes aware of it. But human nature and 
perception as thus used, the latter superseding the other 
in the order of faculties, and the former being a basis to the 
development and realization of the latter, are very closely 
affinitized to clairvoyance and intuition. Both are more in- 
terior in the realm of consciousness or soul and both are 
realized at a certain degree in the development of con- 
sciousness. Never is either human nature or perception, 
in the mind or soul, free of the cooperation and action of 
clairvoyance, in this sense, but as all seeing is clairvoyant, 
yet all perceiving is intuitive in character. However, there 
are degrees in the scale of unfoldment of both clairvoyance 
and intuition, and we here refer to this degree. It is one and 
the same in all. Each soul attains it when it touches it in 
the mystic circle. As all who travel to the sea-board can see 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 41 

the ocean, so all who arrive at this degree in the untoldment 
of consciousness behold clairvoyantly and perceive in- 
tuitively the new and wondrous sea of light all about them. 

We then are attempting no miracle when we send these 
Teachings to the world at this time, as the age is ready for 
them, as humanity is just emerging from the degree of 
human nature into the bright disk of the degree of clair- 
voyance and intuition and awaits this declaration of light. 

Clairvoyance is, then, the clearer seeing as intuition 
is the clearer perceiving of truth in the objective and sub- 
jective realms. They refer to a more lucid and unfolded 
consciousness of soul. They lay hold of deeper and diviner 
relations of things. They see the unchanging law making 
inner as well as outer circles and perceive it, in its opera- 
tions within, as on matter, within spirit and in the forms of 
it. We have designated intuition Divine Inspiration in con- 
tradistinction to inspiration through mediumship by spirits 
excarnate. As clairvoyance is seeing clearer, that is, with a 
deeper ken or penetration, due to the unfolded conscious- 
ness and light from within, so intuition is perceiving, know- 
ing or understanding, with a like ken or penetration, due to 
the same causes. And it is for each to know that conscious- 
ness is the door that leads to truth and love and to God, the 
solvent of all error and evil, the source of all light and power 
and peace from within its own realm of being. And beyond 
this it is for us to realize that this power of seeing and 
perceiving are possible with all, and that they are posses- 
sions of spirit, to be unfolded and utilized. A correct study 
and analysis of human nature and its office will confirm and 
affirm what we here teach and will lead to this realm where 
a clear definition of things can be had, because a higher 
knowledge can be received. Clairvoyance and intuition 
thus work in mutual reciprocity of sphere and aim, and lead 



42 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

the soul away from matter and the outward rays of light, 
away from reflections and shadows with all their entangle- 
ments, away from the quagmire of selfishness, into the realm 
of inspiration, where the light of God and the magnetic seas 
amid luminiferous ethers bring the vision and perception 
into a more perfect harmony with Divinity. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 43 



EXPERIMENT III. 

Do you realize any unfoldment of spirit as thus de- 
clared? Study well yourself and answer from the depths. 



LESSON IV. 

Spirit Limited in Matter. 

There is no question but that "matter" as the word is 
generically understood means more than "materiality." It 
is not merely the stuff out of which is woven or fashioned the 
spirit's form and tabernacle, but it bears a relation, both 
subtle and occult, to the spirit in the law and purpose 
of its life and expression. Were it an entity, as some sophists 
seem to believe, it would at once usurp the sphere and office 
of spirit, and in it would be found the intelligence that moves 
and governs the world ; on the contrary, it is not the entity, 
but the form or mode of the entity's being, and as such it is 
forever subject to the law and limitations of the entity. The 
so-called elements of matter which are regarded as unchang- 
ing and unchangeable, as spirit, are fixed in their chemical 
actions and affinities by the same law that governs spirit, 
and while matter is limited, spirit, by virtue of the un- 
changing law, is likewise limited. There are various de- 
grees of limitation, in the order of expression; the word 
limitation is not to be given a literal but a spiritual interpre- 
tation, and matter in the light of limitation must ever be re- 
ferred to spirit. We maintain that the elements, as we 
view them, have a spiritual as well as a material significa- 

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CLAIRVOYANCE. 45 

tion, and as the one is related to the other in the integrity of 
being, so in the one is the law of the other. Matter as 
materiality is subject to matter as ethereality, and if it be 
true, as chemistry alleges, that ether is the universal sub- 
stance from which, as from a quarry, are mined the ele- 
ments which compose the outward body of nature, differing 
from the crude only in the sense of sublimation, being 
governed by the same law, then the solvent of the body of 
Nature is in ether. But what is ether? Here the chemistry 
of earth is balked. It has no formulae, tools or appliances 
for penetrating the mystery of ether. Its vibrations are 
subtler, more sublime and spiritual than those of light. 
Light can pass over and through ether without any appar- 
ent friction and without losing one degree of its quantity 
of force or momentum. It seems to be as a fixed mirror 
over which life's image can float without ripple or mar. 
And yet ethers respond to motion and vibrate by the same 
law that affects activity in all other planes and spheres of 
chemical or elementary forces. As a medium, it interpene- 
trates the interstices of all elements and is subject to condi- 
tions more inherent in itself and in spirit than in ethereality, 
one of its forms, or in matter, as materiality, a more basic 
or the base of all form. But we hold that matter, in forms of 
materiality and ethereality, outflow from ether, and ether is 
the reflexion of entity. It has no existence per se. As 
time and space, which are alleged to be the properties of 
spirit, have no existence separable from spirit, as sweet- 
ness is a quality of essence, and has no existence in itself, 
so without reality ether would be unthinkable — it could 
have no existence. If this be true, then it follows that matter 
as illustrating ether also illustrates spirit, and in the material 
universe as in the spiritual universe can be found the fabric 
of soul. This fabric is the soul's wardrobe which belongs to 



46 CLAIRVOYANCE, 

it as much as any of its faculties. Take, for instance, a 
spirit in its evolution. It first manifests itself in garments 
which are needful and harmoniously adapted to the state of 
consciousness which it expresses. Out of this state it 
weaves, so to speak, the subtle tissues that make up its ma- 
terial habiliments or vesture. These garments are its own, 
as this composite mass of matter, void and lifeless, so to 
speak, is its own, and having these elements allotted to it, 
by the law and integrity of being; the soul, expressing itself 
through them, in spheres and planes of involution and evo- 
lution, in the process toward the attainment of Divinity or 
apotheosis ; it, with its form, according to the degree of con- 
sciousness it outworks, becomes gradually refined. The 
spirit has material as well as spiritual possessions, but not 
in the literal sense; it has property here as yonder in the 
skies. It has a right to all that its Divinity gives it, and no 
more and no less. And the beauty of the soul's apotheosis, 
in the thought of both the indestructibility and persistency 
of the material universe, as even the materialists teach, is in 
the fact of the preservation of its Divinity in all 
planes and spheres of expression. To possess any- 
thing is not to carry it with you in the form in 
which the possession is made apparent, but to really possess 
it is to have it in the sense of the good that it affords 
and to take the good as a worthy collateral. So when 
you possess a body in a material form and forfeit it by 
death, having outgrown and outlived its use, a collateral 
of it is restored to you in the form of the ethereal or 
spiritual body. This spiritual body is the prototype, nay, 
the harmonial counterpart, or correspondent, in spirit type, 
of the material body; and this finer body, which the ex- 
carnate spirit employs, is no less a possession, is no less the 
fashion of its personality, is no less a type of what will 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 47 

follow in the evolution of the soul as the earth form. In- 
deed, as the soul is to its consciousness in both planes of 
inhabitation, the body is to the spirit. In the first body of the 
spirit is the idea of the fundamental and ultimate per- 
sonality. In the first body of the spirit, as in the last, are 
found the same elements, in different degree of refinement 
and luminosity. Organism is the soul's instrumentality and 
it must be interpreted, spiritually or psychically, to be fully 
appreciated and understood. And this organism of soul 
inheres in all forms of it, throughout the sphere of the soul's 
expression. Nay, more than this, it defines as it estab- 
lishes the character of the tabernacle that the spirit inhabits. 
Always is the lower order or form of organism conditioned 
by organism absolutely, and always in this ratio of planes, 
one, two, three, and so on, following like spheres of con- 
sciousness in the development of the soul, does organism 
reach the final type. 

Elements as ethers in forms, both material and spiritual, 
belong to the spirit and they are the spirit's property for 
reaching expression through manifestation. There is no 
more matter in crude than in fine, as there are no more 
ethers than souls to utilize them in the celestial life. For 
every spirit there is so much matter, and this matter is its 
property, and belongs to it forever. Upon this fact in the 
law of soul is established the science of Psychometry. This 
matter is referable to the soul and to the soul's type of 
personality, so that each soul attracts to it its own elements. 
It never holds in its sphere of Divinity, although it may 
utilize, elements that belong to other souls. It can only use 
what the type of personality needs, and we might go so far 
as to say that every element has its psychic attractions and 
repulsions. This being so, the dream of life in matter brings 
its own interpretation. Consciousness is the law of the 



48 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

organization of the form. All elements tend toward psychic 
centers of attraction and repulsion. Polarity in one element 
moves toward a like polarity in the soul. Thus nature main- 
tains an^ inerrant equilibrium and thus the balance is out- 
stretched in all forms of life. The balance is the symbol of 
Divinity. It sits enthroned in mathematics which is the 
formula of the Cosmos. It rules the consciousnesss in its 
attractions and repulsions and it ordinates the ratios of 
planes and spheres. It makes the shadow alternate with the 
sunshine, and in the balance birth and death w r eigh expres- 
sions of life unendingly; so that the body of the entity may 
be designated the symbol of the soul's expression, and 
interprets the sphere of the soul's apotheosis. 

The body is, plainly speaking, the condition of con- 
sciousness which is the state of the soul. Here is received 
and impressed the image, both human and divine. Here 
in materiality, the soul reaches the light of life, the impulse 
from Divinity, the inspiration of the God Principle, and here 
it outworks, in the laboratory of Nature, the personality in 
the light of the unchanging law. The body, as a condition, 
is, and must always and necessarily be, the reflex of the mind, 
the state of the consciousness of soul. In it in crude form is 
all that can and will be evolved. It is a photograph of a 
more interior and divine negative or image of soul; nega- 
tive, because and when spiritualized, positive because and 
when materialized. Yet in the condition as is illustrated by 
the body, is the law of the state of consciousness of soul as is 
illustrated by the mind. Thus spirit is limited in matter and 
every faculty of spirit is thus circumscribed. This being so, 
it follows that the unfoldment of the spiritual perceptions 
is limited by this state of the consciousness, and that the 
body, in organism, leads to this inference. Conscious- 
ness is the symbol of the deific vision that knows neither the 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 49 

limitation of time nor space, perceives without seeing and is 
as the All Seeing Eye. And as there is evolved in conscious- 
ness the need of light, both as materially and spiritually 
understood, it follows that ''knowledge through the senses" 
and "wisdom through the perceptions" are the inductive 
and deductive methods of its illumination. The vision of a 
mortal is limited by the natural conditions imposed upon it. 
So, also, is the vision of a spirit excarnate limited and in 
like manner. Not only is this true, but it follows, that where 
the vision of a mortal and a spirit is limited by the same 
state of consciousness, all other conditions being equal, both 
are limited in their spheres of clairvoyance. The spirit can- 
not transcend the visual ray nor the clairvoyant penetration 
of a mortal, nor vice versa. But let it not be overlooked that 
not every such mortal utilizes or expresses to the fullest de- 
gree, his clairvoyance. And this may be likewise true of 
the spirit. But no degree of clairvoyance is denied a mortal, 
except that which is limited by the expression. As the ex- 
pression is the all important end to be outwrought, the 
clairvoyance follows its order of development. All who are 
clairvoyant illustrate this aim or peculiarity. The knowl- 
edge which is a mortal's possession by intuition or inspira- 
tion is his as well when communicated by excarnate 
spirits. As a river cannot rise higher than its source, so 
consciousness cannot bring a knowledge beyond the natural 
perception of the spirit. Thus, what is received inspiration- 
ally under the guidance of the spirit can be received through 
intuition or the spiritual perceptions; and always is the 
former revelation one with the latter, according to the 
above principle. Thus, in the realm of cause and effect, a 
mortal follows an absolute law, the process of seeing and 
perceiving being one in all i& harmonial spheres of con- 
sciousness. 



5o CLAIRVOYANCE. 

That some organisms are specially adapted to the ex- 
tensive exercise of clairvoyance does not, in any sense, dis- 
prove what is here affirmed. Mission is the purpose that 
souls fulfill and it refers to an adaptability to the end for 
which the person is called or sent. All have missions adapted 
to their peculiar sphere and plane of life, which are natural 
and divine. As seers or teachers, they are no more divine 
than common humanity. They, by virtue of their peculiar 
organism, which reflects a state of consciousness that evokes 
the office and mission of their work, find their place in life 
and become a Nemesis or Avatar of a new age or a new dis- 
pensation. And these beings are as likely to be called forth 
from the hovel as the palace, provided the spirit is prepared 
for the mission. Preparation is the all important qualifica- 
tion or prerequisite. None who have in them the aspiration 
for this clairvoyance should while away the hours in idle 
dreaming, but rationally and systematically unfold the spirit 
in this direction. No state of mind is fixed, for the expres- 
sion of each age or cycle is so wonderful, comprehensive 
and universal, that the spiritual perceptions can be quick- 
ened and illuminated beyond all extravagant imagining. 
If the object of development be to see and perceive, not only 
by means of mediumship, but through intuition and the 
mental establishment, then success will be the fruition of 
patient effort. The limitations of nature are placed upon the 
ignorant and worldly or those who are wise in their own con- 
ceit, but the aspiring and trusting spirit, who approaches the 
light of inspiration, which is the light of clairvoyance, as a 
child, will not be denied access to the realms within or on 
high. Into the life of such the light of truth shines, that hav- 
ing eyes they may see and having ears they may hear, and 
having hearts they may understand what the spirit will de- 
clare to them. Aspire and toil for this surpassing light and 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 51 

the dawn of the endless day will break through the out- 
ward windows of the soul and bring in its radiant light a 
spiritual and clairvoyant vision both deep and divine, a rev- 
elation of symbols and spirit, of forms and reality. 



52 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



EXPERIMENT IV. 

Fix your mind on a five-pointed star, and watch it in its 
kaleidoscope of colors and observe what takes place back 
of it. Observe this closely. 



LESSON V. 

The Science of Optics Materially and Spiritually Con- 
sidered. 



INTRODUCTION. 

The science of optics is not only the science of light but 
of seeing, as these words are both materially and spiritually 
understood. As the science of light is understood in rela- 
tion to its phenomena, as its nature and source are still mat- 
ters of conjecture and speculation, very little credence can or 
must be attached to the deductions of the natural philos- 
opher. True, his doctrines and inferences are worthy of con- 
sideration and should be examined in the light of facts and 
reason, but no time-honored doctrine, no superstition of 
science, whether accepted by the generality of men of science 
or not, should have the precedence over the truth. There 
is no form of science, in any of the many departments of 
knowledge, which is not temporal in its inductions, and, 
hence, which does not illustrate relations. Forms or sys- 
tems of truth change m the type of involution becomes a 
type of evolution. Forms serve the spirit of life and the 
thought of spirit; and in the progressive scale, a graduated 
form adapts itself to an unfolding thought, mind and spirit. 

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54 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Thus civilization is the unique illustration and achievement 
of progressive forms of life as spirit incarnate, and these 
forms follow and obey the ratio of expressions that the soul 
fulfills in the life which is manifest in them. Thus, while one 
form has in it and reveals through it thought adapted to the 
spirit in its expression, yet it must not be received as a final 
type of the Logos. It should not become the fixed standard 
of measurement. It should not be regarded as infallible and 
absolute for all time to come, but, serving the purpose which 
it fulfills and the age in which it manifests, it should fore- 
shadow and protypefy the successive and preceding forms of 
thought. There is a relative and an absolute type of thought. 
The former is the manifestation, the latter is the logos or 
the will of God. Toward the fulfillment of the logos spirit, by 
means of unfoldment, in involution and evolution, is tend- 
ing; this is the meaning of embodiment or incarnation, as it 
is the aim and signification of all re-embodiment, when a 
necessity. We do not imply that the science of 1800 
B. C. or that of 1800 A. D. is not one in aim and sphere of 
form or definition, but we hold that in the thought of the 
mystic number one, illustrating the totality of all knowledge 
in its fractions and combinations, all that proceeds from it 
is subject to it, and that the relative can never be quite as 
final as the absolute, or as infallible as the truth itself. The 
evolution which is subject to the law of involution is always 
less than it, never greater, on the same ground that soul is 
greater than body, through which it operates. The word 
greater must here be given not a literal or comparative, but 
a spiritual definition. Thus, whatever science has revealed 
or achieved, whatever and however much we may know 
or perceive of the Logos, or the unchanging law, the Logos 
or law is greater than our knowledge, and by the fatality 
of our expression, the limitations of our understanding and 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 55 

perceptions, it dictates and leads us into the higher spheres 
of its presence. Be it so that science is one forever, be- 
cause between knowledge and facts there can be no discrep- 
ancy, yet the circle shows an infinite relativity of con- 
figuration of souls, the degrees in each circle of expression, 
both materially and spiritually aspected, making a circle 
within the greater, the lesser one being subject to_ the law 
of the greater, and fulfilling a unity of design and purpose 
in both, truth ruling at the center of each and balancing all 
in one uniform and perfect motion or rhythm. Axioms are 
the postulates of science as materially considered, and in 
them are found, as upon them are built, the facts of the 
spirit's correspondences. Whatever science, through the 
human understanding, has discovered to be, that no age or 
generation outlives; but the relative is ever taking on and re- 
vealing the thought of the absolute, the Logos. Truth is ever 
absolute. Facts may change their plane of manifestation, 
but they never change their purpose, which is to manifest 
truth. One series of facts may be followed by another series 
in any one department of life, in biology, geology or chem- 
istry, yet each bears an integral relation to the other, in 
sphere and plane of purpose and manifestation, and the 
unity of the order, in arithmetical progression, is never de- 
stroyed. Ever does it reveal immutable law. Thus, the 
science of optics will suffer naught through additional re- 
vealments, for with facts as its collateral it must establish 
itself upon what is axiomatic or self-evident. 

What, then, if we should teach that the potency of light 
is in its spirituality and not materiality, and that the eye 
is not the seat of its recognition as the brain is not the source 
of its sensation? What if we should declare that without 
the spirit the light from without would be darkness to the 
brain? What if, after examining the claims of the material- 



56 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

ist, we should affirm that the spirit, through its own light, 
parallels in materiality, nay, interblends, by a process beyond 
the analysis or understanding of man, its rays of light with 
the affinitizing rays of the sun, so that there is a sphere of 
light formed, in which the soul forever exists? What if 
we should affirm that these spheres are circles, radiant and 
transparent, in which consciousness is revealed and unfold- 
ment is outworked from within essence? What if, at last, we 
should declare that each soul has its spheres of darkness and 
light, as well as its spheres: of light and darkness, that have 
been utilized and exist only in the forms of consciousness, 
that have been fulfilled, but which are omnipresent? This 
is the purpose of this lesson. 

The spirit is the source of all finite light, as God is the 
source of it. It has its own light, which is as many times 
more radiant and clear than the sunlight as it is more 
luminous than its negative, the contrasting darkness. It 
is the light of essence, of being, of love. It is deific in 
luminosity, differing from the light of God only in degree. 
Their quality is one. This light is colorless, but is, in the 
chemistry and media of earth, through prisms and the 
spectrum analysis, of seven colors, or three, in four comple- 
mentary forms, making a uniform octave. These colors 
are red, yellow and blue, making the complement of four, 
orange, green, indigo, violet, and the seven in all. A per- 
fect and proportionate interfusion of the three or the seven 
will produce the white, more or less pure as the colors and 
media are pure. As spirit is indefinable in form, so light is 
so in color. None of the seven colors or the three can 
truly define it. It is capable of refrangibility, but it, in 
itself, defies analysis. Thought has a like composition and 
is capable in the spiritual prisms of a like refrangibility, so 
that there are those teachers among us who hold that 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 57 

thought is light. As there is no light without thought and 
no thought without light* there is some ground for their 
inferences. We, however, hold that light is a quality of 
thought but is not thought. It is its atmosphere, potent 
and radiant as the thought is for good, but quite the reverse 
if for evil. All thought has its sphere of light and hence its 
degree of radiation. It interblends with like rays from all 
psychic centers. It correlates itself by an integrity or law 
of spheres to thought in all planes, and in uniform degrees 
of vibration. Material light, so called, is thus affined to 
spiritual light, with this difference in souls, that the partic- 
ular ray is to the general what the general is to the partic- 
ular; in plain words, one soul is to another soul in sphere 
and plane what one (i) sphere is to one (i) plane of souls. 
As the sun is the source of material light and God is the 
source of spiritual light, souls live and move and have their 
being in both by an order and ratio of spheres and planes 
which are mathematically correlated and exact in both the 
material and spiritual universe. The outward ray that 
reaches the sensory responds to the inward ray that corre- 
lates itself to it, and when the fusion or union is formed, the 
sensation of light and thought is apprehended and defined. 
Perception follows a deeper light, and while it is subject 
to the same law, yet it is more interior and mystic in its 
operations. It works through lenses and apparatus that 
are so refined and spiritualized that no adequate conception 
of them can be formed or a definition or il- 
lustration given in the language of earth. The 
eye, the organ of vision and sense of sight form 
the cabinet where the forces, in the laboratory of spirit, 
are gathered and concentrated and where visions of things 
are "made up." Here the ego or spirit through the medium 
of the sense acts as a cabinet chemist, and, connecting the 



58 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

psychic with the material ray of light that enters the pupil 
of the eye, the outward curtain, through which the light 
enters, by the principle of expansion or contraction, the 
pupil becoming contracted when the light is strong, and 
expanded when weak, forms the necessary image or defini- 
tion of the object that is conveyed on the outward ray. 
The retina of the eye is the outer cabinet, a camera obscura, 
or a darkened chamber, where the outward or material rays 
are married to the spiritual rays from within. This retina or 
camera obscura is dark, not in the spiritual but the material 
sense, and for the same purpose that the cabinets for phys- 
ical manifestations, through mediumship, are more or less 
darkened. The retina thus becomes negative to the posi- 
tive, as the positive becomes negative to the rays of corre- 
lated light. The womb of life in all forms of organism is 
constructed on and operated by the same principle. Wher- 
ever generation of life forms or thought is to take place, 
the process is one and the same, the differentiation being 
in mode or process, not in principle. Darkness is a con- 
dition for generation. Life en-tering forms follows the 
same law that controls life entering thought spheres. Each 
spirit is born and reborn in this sense, from plane and sphere 
to plane and sphere forever. 

Here in the retina, the light of the spirit reaches the 
rays of light through the eye and from the outward sun, 
and they are not absorbed here, but rather they are fash- 
ioned into the form that is conveyed by the thought of the 
ray from within. The sense or sensory is the medium of 
translation. Here the form is given its spiritual type, its 
idea. And the significance of this is in the fact that only 
those outward forms are sensed that are received. Forms 
may be seen but not perceived, as we have elsewhere shown. 
The spirit operates in this way, that the forms or definitions 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 59 

of outward things in the light of thought may be received. 
Afterward, as the inspiration dictates, as the mind is pre- 
pared to realize the materiality of the outward rays in the 
light of their spirituality, the perceptions are used and the 
ideas become realizations. And when this occurs, Nature 
will not repeat the phenomena. When one degree of the 
state of consciousness is attained, the consciousness passes 
toward the next and so on, until that phase of its expression 
is fulfilled. Then in the loom of soul the pattern makes 
a shift, the warp and woof silently await the action of the 
shuttle in its forward and backward movements, while con- 
sciousness receives the rays of light from within and with- 
out, which, when sensed and perceived, embody the purpose 
of the design. Each sense acts in this order and leads to 
this end. The brain is the central office where all the or- 
gans are kept moving in accord with the law of spirit. 

The sense acts in perfect harmony with the organ, and 
as the medium between the brain and sensory it fulfills the 
office of the spirit, by connecting and translating by means 
of its mechanism the rays of correlated light. Strangely 
true is it that in both rays thought is conveyed, and most 
strangely true is it that an identical thought is revealed. 
The mind and brain act in unison with the spirit, and in the 
circle of these rays of light and thought all sensation as 
well as all definition of things, so far as the consciousness 
and perception of the spirit are concerned, are obtained. 
Thus the outward material ray is a hemisphere, and with 
the inward, spiritual ray makes a sphere or circle. You 
can become aware of this if you choose to analyze thought 
as vision and vision as thought from center to circumfer- 
ence. Errors are made when the connection is not perfect, 
through disharmonious and incongruous organic and psy- 
chic conditions. But the law of truth is also the law of error. 



6o CLAIRVOYANCE. 

We maintain, then, that the real source of light and 
vision, as of sensation and thought, is in spirit, and that 
there is the provision for definition, perception, demonstra- 
tion and realization. Thought is both positive and negative 
as materially and spiritually viewed. To spirit excarnate 
it is positive, as to spirit incarnate it is negative, and vice 
versa. To the outward mind of spirit, material light is 
positive, while to us it is negative, and vice versa. So in 
the divine, organic and psychic arrangement, spirit^ in the 
formation of thought, generates it where the outward light 
is negatived by the spiritual light, which is positive, and, 
by such chemistry as is opposite in polarity and plane of 
operation from material chemistry, being subjective rather 
than objective, it develops material rays of light and all that 
is potent in them into their spiritual forms, so that they may 
be seen or manifested in consciousness. The mind is the 
field of the seance chamber, where the spirit reveals her 
formations or visions of ideas. And sometimes her forms 
or visions are crude, as the brain, mind and outward media 
are harmonized with the thought that is to be embodied. 
For every spiritual ray of light from psychic realms, or for 
every thought, there is a material counterpart in the sphere 
of material light. There are no more rays of material than 
rays of spiritual light. Thus the unity and integrity of the 
cosmos are maintained amid a seeming chaos and confusion. 
All is law, order and harmony, even error and evil fulfilling 
the law of spirit. 

The science of optics has this material and spiritual 
signification, and it is within the province of science to 
demonstrate these facts which we have here declared. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 61 



FIFTH EXPERIMENT. 

If this be true, is it not as easy to see and perceive 
spiritual things as material, and if so, why then is not clair- 
voyance the gateway leading to the skies? Allow the spirit 
to gather up those rays of light which convey the visions 
celestial, observe and analyze what you see. Concentrate 
on the spirit and shut out from the mind and the eyes the 
solar rays of light. The mind will become the revelation 
of w T ondrous scenes and beings from the spirit world,. 



LESSON VI. 

Vibrations. Their Law in Relation to Light and Sight. 

There is no question but that the science or law of vibra- 
tion underlies the whole structure or organism of spirit. 
Whatever is potent in the universe expresses the action of 
this law. Mankind are creatures of this law and with life 
and its myriad of forms share its regnancy and operation. 
This law is one with the unchanging law, to which we so 
often refer, and is a mode both of its action and interpreta- 
tion. If we should affirm that the nature of the unchanging 
law is the law or mode of vibration, we doubtless should not 
be misunderstood, for the action of the unchanging law, 
however various and entangled in the meshes of planes and 
spheres, is the corollary of its vibration. Vibration is pulsa- 
tion, movement, action, as may be illustrated in the lungs 
or heart or crudely in the delicate spring of a watch. It is 
the reiteration of force from one center of radiation to an- 
other, where action and reaction may be equal or unequal. 
In momentum or intensity, vibration presupposes a center 
of radiation, from which it derives its momentum. Each es- 
sence in itself, as well as in its form, has such center of vibra- 
tion, and while it is not apparent or understood, yet is it 
the cause of all that is designated the phenomena of life. 
There is what is called mechanical or dynamic and psychic 

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vibration and the former is under the government of the 
latter. Vibration is the exponent or interpretation of exact 
science, of mathematics. It is in every plane and sphere of 
manifestation or operation the exact formula of the unchang- 
ing law. It is not senseless or unintelligent motion, but is 
the effect of cause, as intelligent as it is eternal. The trend 
of modern science bears happily upon this System of Teach- 
ing. The tendency of materialism has been to divorce the 
dynamic from the psychic or spiritual on the ground that 
spirit is not existent as an essence or entity, and to trace 
in the program of uniform causation as illustrated in mate- 
rial physics, chemistry and biology the steps that lead to 
mind and spirit. And spirit thus became an evolution of 
matter and the product of it, always less and never greater 
than the elements and forces that evolved it. But the 
facts of spiritualism, both in the ancient and modern world, 
and the universal prevalence of the phenomena of clairvoy- 
ance, hypnotism, ghosts and magic of all kinds (not leger- 
demain) have turned the tide of thought to a more radical 
and opposite statement and interpretation of life. No one 
who is at all informed upon the subject denies that the 
phenomena of matter and force are under the government 
of law, but there is a various interpretation or definition 
of law. Scientists of the most ultra sort have been loath 
to make law and intelligence identical and they have been 
equally indisposed to externalize law. They have called 
it a process, a mode of action inherent in and indigenous to 
matter, and even where it seemed necessary for them to 
attribute to it at least the element of wisdom they have dis- 
posed of the difficulty by designating the process "evolu- 
tion," making this word cover and explain all doubts and 
answer all difficulties. It is not to be denied but that this 
last resort is the confession of the weakness of their posi- 



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tion and the triumph of the metaphysician. It is the fin de 
siecle of modern scientific research and it means everything 
for the spiritualist. For though the spiritualist does not 
confound law with intelligence, he makes law the mode of 
intelligence and thus is not driven to extreme and erroneous 
assumptions to account for the facts. We teach that as 
the unchanging law is the mode of spirit, natural and spirit- 
ual law or law that concerns spirit embodied and spirit 
disembodied, in materialty and ethereality respectively, are 
the phases of its manifestation in the material and spiritual 
universe. The law is the same as a unit of radiation. The 
so-called forces, as electricity and magnetism, are not laws, 
but conditions of matter, and they exhibit the action of the 
unchanging law in their respective spheres or planes. Of 
course, it must be remembered that the entity, whatever 
may be its name, is the source of intelligence, the seat of 
law, the center of all radiation; and the material forms and 
phenomena of life act obediently to the vibrations or radia- 
tions of the entity as here declared. Should you examine 
the vibrations of hydrogen or nitrogen, you would find 
that they are uniformly the same, each after its kind, because 
each element, so called, as a point of motion or radiation, 
depends upon the unchanging law for its vibration, as also 
it reflects and refracts the force and radiation given to it. 
Nay, more than this, the sphere of Nature may be likened 
to a body literally circumscribed and permeated by the un- 
changing law, where every atom, form, phenomenon of life, 
even life itself, is the illustration and exponent of the law. 
Let us not be misunderstood. The law is the mode of the 
intelligence and illustrates it. Conscience and conscious- 
ness both obey the unchanging law, but for the entity the 
law is potent in all planes, and spheres of action. The law 
never changes its purpose. That purpose is fixed and ab- 



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solute and destinates life in the form. The law as the 
mode of essence or soul of spirit, mind, life, of the much- 
abused words, consciousness and conscience, ordains and 
governs the planes of manifestation and expression. In 
other words, the ascent of life is ever toward the perception 
and realization of the unchanging law. It has a lesson for 
each plane and sphere of life and these lessons lead to higher 
interpretations and deeper understandings of the unchang- 
ing law. The integrity of the law is maintained forever and 
ever. A child is still soul and is still under the government 
of the unchanging law after it has outgrown or used the 
lessons of childhood. One sphere or more spheres of con- 
sciousness do not exhaust the resources nor fulfill the pur- 
pose of this law. The mode may have a variety of spheres 
of differentiation and yet be uniformly one in purpose and 
inclination. Light absolute is one in color and form though 
it has an apparently infinite differentiation. The ray of light 
is one on the surface of the sun or earth or through the 
media of prisms of ether. It loses naught of its potency or 
mission by vibration. Its mission is to vibrate at a uniform 
rate, always the same mathematically. So, the unchanging 
law is both absolute and relative in action and it is the spec- 
trum where all life centers and radiates. This being so, 
as Nature in her manifestations and expressions of life evi- 
dences we have a key to the solution of the problem of 
clairvoyance. Light obeys the unchanging law in every 
plane and sphere of consciousness. Consciousness fixes the 
radiation or vibrations of light spiritual and material. In 
exact mathematical figures the vibration of light, in corre- 
sponding planes and spheres of consciousness, cannot here 
be stated, but suffice it to say that the consciousness through 
the brain radiates in exact harmony with the outward ray 
that weds itself to the inward ray through the action of the 



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spirit. And these rays serve their purpose according to the 
principle of reflection and refraction. The eye and the brain, 
acting in harmony with the soul through the mind and 
spirit, receive the outward rays, not in their original inten- 
sity, but by the process and in the form of radiation and in 
the psychic as well as the organic apparatus, this interblend- 
ing of the material and spiritual rays of light is affected. By 
means of this mystic process, the necessary vibrations of 
light are conformed to the spiritual vibrations and all ratios 
are fixed by the state of the soul which is to be outworked 
and fulfilled. Angles of declination and inclination play an 
important part in this process. Thus darkness serves its 
purpose as a mode of light where the vibrations are the 
least potent for spirituality but the most potent for mate- 
riality. Thus evil and error are words which, when philo- 
sophically interpreted, are full of meaning and Divinity. 
Thus we find the angle of least inclination to the unchanging 
law where the lowest order of intelligence and spirituality 
obtain and according to the species or flora or any other 
rational classification the state of the soul follows the same 
angle of ascension which, in the mystic square, as here in 
the mystic circle, designates the approach to the Light of 
the World and Soul. Thus mathematics serves soul, while 
soul follows an unerring principle of geometry. 

You see only what you perceive, in both a material and 
spiritual sense. The key to seeing is also the key to per- 
ceiving. The higher the rate of vibrations which you can 
command the greater will be your spiritual light. Intense 
rays of light, as the red, are not as potent as the more 
electrical, the blue, purple and indigo. The finer colors are 
significant of the finer vibrations, the coarser of the crude. 
Thus the grade of one's consciousness, which is the light 
of the soul, is determined by one's spirituality. The finer 



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and purer the life the closer affinitized one is with the 
thought spheres of angels. Spirits and angels live and 
move and have their being in these spheres, that are as 
fixed as the unchanging law. These spheres represent as 
they illustrate mathematical numbers and uniform ratios of 
vibrations. The ratio of absolute positive vibrations is as the 
absolute positive sphere of harmony. It is the sphere of 
the apotheosis. The absolute negative sphere is its antith- 
esis, symbol of night, darkness, death. The two har- 
monize at a center of polarity, which is the center of radia- 
tion. In all planes and spheres, the light and darkness 
alternate by the sacred sign of Libra, the scales or balance. 
Libra rules the heart, spiritually, rules in love. Interlinear 
rays of light form the spectrum of the souFs life and Divinity 
where it attains access to the holy flame of love, white and 
pure within the Holy of Holies. By traveling to the East 
from the West, to the Light from Darkness, to Spirituality 
from Materiality, to consciousness from birth and rebirth 
in matter, you make the straight line, symbol of Divinity, 
of one, of eternity, harmony, God. At every point of the 
circle of spiritual light, as it blends with the circle of mate- 
rial light, the unchanging law reigns, and through the 
angles of relation to light the soul attains its state of 
Divinity and enters the aureole of its own mystic light of 
love. But the path is one of love unto love, by the process 
designated spirituality. 



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SIXTH EXPERIMENT. 

Write inspirationally what the spirit gives you on the 
theme "Light and Spirituality." 

To prepare conditions for this experiment become very 
quiet and passive and then concentrate by aspiration upon 
Divinity. As you receive the light of inspiration perceive 
the thought which is imminant. Be not baffled by failure 
but insist upon the success of it by patient, persistent and 
conscientious effort. 



PART II. 

LESSON VII. 

Spirit in Relation to Time and Space. The Sphere 
and Office of Matter. 

There is no question but that there is a profound phi- 
losophy underlying the speculations of the scientist and 
metaphysician concerning time and space. We know that 
these two words, though much abused, hold in them the 
apparent limit of consciousness. Terminology is not to be 
received as nor construed to be the formula or statement 
of consciousness. Literature, like mathematics, has an 
esoteric as well as an exoteric signification; but words are 
the vehicles of thought, the clothing of ideas, which no 
more define thought in its spirituality than a suit of clothes 
defines man. There is a remote relation between them, but 
as a shadow cannot define the light which makes it, neither 
should words be taken as absolute interpretations of the 
thoughts which they clothe. Words must be given a spirit- 
ual as w r ell as a material definition. More than this, words 
must be given the exact meaning which the mind that uses 
them wishes to have conveyed, and as there is in this re- 
spect a general and particular use, both in the material 

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and spiritual sense, caution should be taken lest the one 
meaning be confused with the other or lest ambiguity be 
accepted for perspicuity. The real masters of form see 
to it that spirit defines the form, not that the form defines 
the spirit. This, indeed, is perfect art. Thus the words, 
time and space, have suffered because of a multiform defini- 
tion, yet they are conspicuous in philosophy as words, that 
convey a different meaning to different minds. When, for 
instance, you literalize time and space, you make them coex- 
tensive with matter, and as matter is coextensive with spirit, 
both give to the words what is implied in the quality of 
both. Matter is supposed to have three dimensions, length, 
breadth and thickness, while spirit is limited by finality or 
finiteness, words which signify an end to time and 
space. The confusion at once arises when an attempt 
is made to use the formula as here set forth. It is then 
allowed that time and space are illimitable. Yet all this is 
irreconcilable with the worcis as materially interpreted. 
Time is a definite concept, as the Greek word (temno) 
illustrates, while space is no less concrete. Yet when ap- 
plied to matter, they seem to fix the plane of its action, and 
yet when applied to spirit, they seem to convey an entirely 
different impression. The cause of this we shall here at- 
tempt to explain. 

Spirit is fated in spheres of action. These spheres oper- 
ate in corresponding planes, which are designated by the 
word matter. Matter as the composition or chemical base 
of these planes is spirit in a crude form. All elements, as 
we have elsewhere taught, are spiritual in their affinities, 
that is, they are repelled by and attracted to psychic polari- 
ties or centers. They have no absolute existence. They have 
no being per se or outside of spirit. They are in fine and in 
crude one and the same spirit. Spirit possesses them and 



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they manifest in the material plane through the spectrum 
or medium of consciousness, not as an entity or a composi- 
tion of entities, but as the veritable form of the spirit, spirit 
having in itself the unit or primate of the kaleidoscope of 
these elements. Thus whatever may compose the elements 
or organism of the body as the unchanging law controls 
the forms which appear in a sphere and plane of uniform 
vibration. Matter in reality is but a mode of motion, fixed 
by the unchanging law of spirit. This is why all elements 
have their uniform attractions and repulsions, as well as their 
analogous polarities. This is also why you will find on all 
suns and in their systems the polarity which regulates the 
centrifugal and centripetal forces, and makes it but an axis 
on which revolve the orbs and motions of the galaxies. 
The polarity itself is fixed by the unchanging law. Thus 
in a plane or sphere of spirit, say number one (1), a certain 
grade of vibrations obtains, and in them spirit operates ac- 
cordingly, displaying its phenomena and revealing its ex- 
pression, all the alleged elements that play in its mystic 
kaleidoscope conforming to the polarity of spirit, which 
centers its axis on uniform polarities in similars. By simi- 
lars we mean modes of motion which foreshadow in a 
uniform ratio of development an analogous form of motion, 
but under a higher rate of vibration. Thus hydrogen, oxy- 
gen, argon, each and all have their ultimates in spirit. They 
are prototypes of a type absolute. Thus matter seems to be 
and is fated in conditions of time and space, both having 
to do with modes of the motion of spirit. The mystic cir- 
cle of time and space has been likened to 
a circle containing 360 degrees, the degrees in space 
and in time corresponding exactly, the vibration in any 
sphere or analogous plane covering the circle in space in 
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to go so far in this circle of 360 degrees. One rate of vibra- 
tion may be slower or more rapid than another, but the 
polarity of the lower is conditioned by that of the higher 
and acts in perfect rhythm with it. Over, beneath and 
through all these spheres and corresponding planes of vi- 
bration one unchanging law rules. Thus time and space 
are relative terms and must be so interpreted, and they 
must not be made the formula of the soul or the Cosmos. 

Time and space are w 7 ords that refer to spheres and 
planes of psychic action and hence to modes of the soul's 
life or being. Chiefly they have to do with materiality and are 
not recognized in the calendar of spirit. Thought and ac- 
tion expressed in spirituality govern all concepts of eternity 
and show their spiritual signification in the higher life. 
No time or space is there in the material sense, location or 
residence being subordinated to the law that acts reversely 
from its action in materiality. That is, whereas here the 
spirit is subordinated to the natural, in our realm, the nat- 
ural is subordinated to the spiritual law. The difference is 
one of correspondency but not one of opposition. Thus 
time and space are not literalized but spiritualized, the 
real concept of them becoming realized. 

The office or sphere of matter is to bring the soul 
through these multiplied changes, all fixed by the unchang- 
ing law, through a uniform process of evolution into the 
aim of the involution, which is the apotheosis. We are 
not concerned with final causes, but with the mission of 
the facts of life, which are the collaterals of truth, the ex- 
ponent of the law of being. We are not concerned with 
the reason but the cause for all this arrangement and from 
our point of view it is evident that matter serves soul in 
its evolution. It is a basic mode of manifestation and 
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soul in its various and uniform states of consciousness. It 
is in our realm as it is in the realm of coarser matter. 
However, the end is outworked as the spheres and planes 
are ever maintained in one perfect correlation and integrity. 
Spirit is only subordinate to this or that mode, when a state 
of soul reaches its perfection through it. Never can number 
one (i) grade of matter hold a soul that lives and moves and 
has its being in number two (2) grade. And so on through 
the mathematical series in the rhymic and mystic scale of 
being. Strive then for the purity of spheres where soul 
responds to finer grades of motion in matter and the brain 
will become the lens as the mind the spectrum through 
which the light of lights will stream and bring its own 
wondrous kaleidoscope. 



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SEVENTH EXPERIMENT. 

Do you sense a slow or rapid vibration by holding this 
name in your hand? 

In attempting this experiment place the name written in i 
ink on your brow or in the palm of the left hand and note 
the sensation. If the person is intense, impulsive, magnetic 
or electrical, or the reverse, the result will be very apparent. 
Keen concentration and unruffled receptivity of mind lead 
to immediate and the best results. The same experiment 
may apply to superscriptions of letters or any articles suf- 
fused with personal magnetism. 



LESSON VIII. 

Spirit in Relation to Control. The Uses of Magnetism 
and Electricity. Hypnotism. The Trance. 

Control in spiritual science should not be confused 
with control or "controls" as popularized by spiritualism. 
Control, as we use it, has to do with the will and not with 
the organism; it is never forced and it refers to choice on 
the part of the spirit who wishes to avail himself of its 
benefits. The word control has been very much abused, 
as much to the detriment of spiritualism as a factor for 
enlightenment and civilization as to the detriment of those 
who submitted to it. Among the media, it is the usurpa- 
tion of the will of another, a dominancy of one mind over 
another for malevolent or benevolent purposes. It is, in 
short, obsession and not possession. To be self or soul 
possessed is not to be obsessed. Many, therefore, are ob- 
sessed who, could they understand the law of medium- 
ship or control, would not so readily accede to control. 
We are not here arguing against or criticising a mode or 
the method of excarnate spirit communication. We hold 
that obsession as control has its needs and uses, but we are 
inclined to believe that were the dangers of control, as 
illustrated by obsession, perceived or understood, few indeed 

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would open their will to its power. There are spirits who, 
not yet having arisen above the attractions of earth, and 
who, entangled in its magnetic waves of influence, seek 
through mediumship an avenue of approach to the old 
and familiar scenes and haunts of pleasure and vice; and 
thus precious years are seemingly wasted by these spirits in 
thus seeking to live over or relive the old scenes while the 
impulse from within the soul for higher individualistic work 
is temporarily baffled. These unfortunate ones, blinded 
by their attractions, like ducks that mistake decoys for their 
own kind, rush into organisms and seek to continue the 
earth life or find in the sea of materiality, whither the earth 
attractions draw them, the means to psychic gratification 
or expiation; whereas, it is literally true that such license on 
the part of spirit and medium are weapons of offense rather 
than defense. It is not to be denied that some good is 
achieved by these spirits, directly and indirectly, nor is it 
at all to be wondered at that such intervention should be 
hailed by earth dwellers as a boon; but while this is so 
and while it follows, yet who w r ould deny that the better 
course is to be set at naught for it? Who would say that 
spirit by obsession acquires what can only be received by 
receptivity to angel ministrations? It is as if the spirit of 
an adult should by hypnotism usurp and obsess the will 
and body of an infant, the better by so doing to correct 
mistakes made or gather up lessons omitted in the sphere 
of infancy. The law is that we shall unfold progressively, 
not retrogressively, by pushing on and into higher and di- 
viner states of consciousness, not by reacting the scenes of 
one sphere and plane of existence, or by receiving the les- 
sons which are no longer needful. We have this obstacle 
to remove from the thought of many who enter spirit life 
unprepared, so to speak, for the encampment on the hillsides 



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of summer land, who, ignorant of psychic law and its at- 
tractions, mistake earth loves for the law and thus swim 
out on those magnetic seas that influx the celestial and 
terrestrial planes and seek to renew life in the body. Ex- 
perience in the spirit world has taught us that control and 
its law have a deeper and diviner import than that which 
is illustrated by commonplace obsession. We affirm that, 
while obsession is permitted and is necessary as an alterna- 
tive, while beneficent results follow invasions of spirits of the 
old haunts of earth, while medium/ship which has opened 
the door for intercommunication of spirits and mortals has 
served and now serves an admirable and commendable pur- 
pose; yet, while all this is true, the law of control serves 
soul to higher and diviner ends. The original intent of 
spirits who passed out of the body in returning to earth 
and earth loves was to live in the atmosphere of their nat- 
ural attractions, and it became at once the mission as well 
as arduous task of the more advanced spirits, under the 
ministrations of angels, to teach them the necessity of with- 
drawing from earth and winging their flight to more celestial 
environments. Nay, more than this, it was the aim of mis- 
sionary spirits to posit themselves as a rescue band or a soul- 
saving crew at the portal of each one's home, and as death 
cut asunder the silvery thread which associates and binds 
the spirit with and to the body, there to apply the science of 
control. Naturally, the spirit, freed of the entanglement of 
earth, seeks at once the visions celestial and curiosity 
prompts it to peer into the corridors of heaven and seek 
for entrance to the more celestial spheres, and upon being 
denied access to them, and finding that earth loves are 
more potent than psychic attractions of the celestial order, 
it, by the very necessity of its life, recedes from the light 
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78 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

to be once again with the loved ones of earth. The potency 
of this love, which is an intense attraction, lures it earth- 
ward, and down the pathway of earth attractions it de- 
scends until once more it identifies itself with the circle 
of earth. Its pursuit is for the gateway of mediumship that 
leads to actuality of earth attractions and consciousness, 
and as such pursuit is a very difficult and weary one, and 
fraught with untold disappointments, sorrows and dangers, 
a spirit in search of this golden fleece, like Jason of Greek 
mythology, can come to but one conclusion and one end. 
And so it is. The gateway found and opened, the spirit is 
for years kept in the atmosphere of earth, without the sweet 
consolation of superior souls who shed their glory upon it, 
chilled by the cold atmosphere of earth or only warmed when 
a familiar face smiles upon it or a word or message is ex- 
changed at the curtain of a cabinet or through the diversified 
channels of mediumship. Years are spent in such action, 
which may well be likened to if not called an adventure. 

The question at once arises, could not this same com- 
munication be effected after the manner of science rather 
than ignorance, after the manner of those guardian spirits 
who have learned the law of control and seek to teach it 
without money and price to all the newly born into the 
spirit world; and, if so, should not spirits who now roam 
the earth, seeking to obsess as well as obsessing mortals, 
be benefited thereby? Would not mortals learn a lesson 
by the discovery and teaching? 

The law of control has then a material and spiritual 
phase and signification, the latter ruling and dictating the 
sphere of the former. Thus, to rightly control mind, you 
really control organism, as when the will is directed by the 
purpose of the unchanging law, the appetites, passions and 
desires bend to the decree of the will. To obsess or control 



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organism, as is illustrated in spiritualism, is to operate the 
law materially, but to guide the mind by operating the 
spirituality of control, that is, by fulfilling the real purpose 
of the law, is not to dispossess any mortal or spirit of its 
body or its prerogative by usurping its sphere and plane of 
being. The real signification of control is inspiration, 
teaching, guidance, not usurpation or obsession, and while 
obsession in the sphere of control may be said to be and is 
fundamental to the end of control, control as we would have 
you apply it is spiritual rather than material. Ample provi- 
sion is made in the desideratum of Nature's law for so-called 
"lost opportunities." And as there are and can be no lost 
opportunities, each sphere and plane of life serving the soul 
exactly in mathematical order, there is no need of spirits 
returning to earth to be re-embodied by means of control, 
or to seek through mediumship to live again through an- 
other's organism what it enjoyed or failed to enjoy. A dire 
and baleful effect is produced upon humanity by so doing. 
The object of mediumship, as we perceive it, is for real 
action, to make the ignorant aware of the eternal conscious- 
ness of spirit and to nourish and replenish the earth and its 
denizens with the light of the skies, but when such purpose 
is perverted or ignored, and when mediumship affords spirits 
the means for the untold sins of life, spirits becoming like 
mistletoes or barnacles, sapping the vital forces from the 
mediums for self-gratification, as is often the case, our teach- 
ing and the value of it will at once be perceived. Therefore 
we urge the higher spiritual aspect and spiritualizing uses 
of control. 

Control, then, is the law by which spirits in or out of 
the body affect through the will by hypnotism, or the use 
of electricity and magnetism, an identity of action, psychic, 
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80 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

forms, as it has, as we have elsewhere stated, two particular 
phases. Its phases are material and spiritual, that of inspira- 
tion, as in mental illumination of seers and the inspired 
media, and that of the trance, where the spirit of the medium 
is set at naught by hypnotism. Its forms are dependent and 
independent. The dependent is the automatic, where the 
consciousness of the medium is displaced or in a sense 
merged into, if not absorbed by the consciousness of, the 
controlling intelligence. The trance is the dependent or 
automatic phase and form. The inspirational is the inde- 
pendent form and phase. To induce the automatic form 
of control a preponderance of magnetism is used, and you 
will find that all magnetists or hypnotists are batteries for 
this force. To induce the independent or inspirational form 
of control, electricity is used, that is, in preponderancy, and 
you will find that all inspired media or seers speak and 
see with their eyes open and are conscious of what is said 
through them. Not only is this true, but the law holds good 
throughout the sphere and plane of mediumship. All me- 
diums for physical or material forms of the spiritual mani- 
festations are batteries for the magnetic force, that is, they 
supply an organism sufficiently negatived by electricity and 
positived by magnetism to establish a polarity for the use 
of the latter, which is the condition of matter as electricity 
is the condition of spirit. All mediums for mental forms of 
the spiritual manifestations are batteries for the electricial 
force, that is, they supply an organism that is sufficiently 
negatived by magnetism and positived by electricity to es- 
tablish a polarity for the use of the latter, which is the condi- 
tion of spirit, as the former is the condition of matter. Thus 
you have the phenomena of the medium, through magnetism 
and electricity, of the material and soiritual form. All me- 
diums are both magnetic and electrical, the physical having a 



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preponderance of the former, while the mental having the 
preponderance of the latter. It will at once be seen that 
the automatic phase, both among the physical and mental 
media, is induced largely through the use of magnetism, 
while the independent, that of inspiration, or illumination, is 
induced by the use of electricity. Automatic writers are 
those whose beings are harmoniously polarized by the mag- 
netic and electrical forces; so with trance speakers. Those 
who have produced through their organism both inspiration 
and the material phenomena, each class successful in their 
phase, are mediums whose organism responds as readily 
to the magnetic as to the electrical vibrations, and could 
be put into the trance, if the operating spirit intelligences 
so desired. Such represent the shoots of the new order of 
mediums; they are the illustrations of the Nemesis of the 
new dispensation of spiritualism. 

Hypnotism and the trance are cause and effect; that is, 
one leads to the other through the potency of the will. 
Concentration is the key that solves the mystery. Hyp- 
notism is the power of all because it is the prerogative of 
spirit. The mother that soothes the babe into sleep on her 
bosom is obeying the law that closes at night the Eyes of the 
World. And creation is as surely hypnotized, when at the 
hour appointed for the earth to recede into darkness, al- 
though it is unconscious of the process and to the manner 
born, as when an expert hypnotist induces it by artificial or 
psychic means. The trance is a form of sleep. Sleep is the 
only natural trance that is known; all other forms, either 
the automatic or independent in mediumsriip, are higher 
forms of consciousness. Sleep proves but never disproves 
consciousness as by dreams, and the trance reveals its own 
absence of consciousness. There cannot be dreams or 
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of trance in mediumship is the one where consciousness is 
most aware of the interior illumination; such is the apoth- 
eosis of trance. It is the perfection of control because the 
perfection of possession. It is the state of soul where the 
will of the Divine in the will of another is most fully and 
clearly perceived and realized. It is conformity to the Law 
of Uniformity in all. It is the culmination and illustration 
of the deific principle illustrated by the seer of Nazareth, 
"I am in the Father and the Father in me, the work that I 
do I do not of myself." It is cooperative and reciprocal and 
becomes the spectrum of the will of God. This can be at- 
tained, not by obsession, not by control, as is illustrated in 
the sphere and phenomena of catalepsy, but by the at-one- 
ment of the spirit with the Spirit of the Universe. To unfold 
this form of control you must seek for and know the law that 
gives it, and first of all you must, by spirituality, intensify 
your zeal and love for truth, that having access to knowl- 
edge you may use it wisely and well, that having medium- 
ship you may become one with the Divine Unity of the 
Cosmos, that revealing and having revealed the spiritual 
manifestations, you may become ennobled and blest 
thereby. 



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EIGHTH EXPERIMENT. 

Climb in thought to the highest sphere within your 
soul and perceive how this law operates. Note the results 
of this experiment. Enter into the silence of spirit. 



LESSON IX. 

COLOR— ITS DEFINITION AND MEANING 

There is and can be no more interesting study of Nature 
and in Nature than that of color. The law of color lies 
at the foundation of psychic attractions and permeates the 
life. Whatever material science may teach concerning color 
adds to the interest already aroused on the subject. Color 
itself seems to be the atmosphere of all things, and as such, 
holds in its force the chemistry of its operations and mani- 
festations. It is not the atmosphere of anything, however, 
but so wholly or completely does it transfuse both essence 
and form, that, like the atmosphere, it seems to be the 
medium of life itself. Color is not an entity. Both light 
and sound are motions, induced by thought, being the vibra- 
tions of thought in harmonial spheres and planes of attrac- 
tion. And color, like both light and sound, is a quality or 
degree of motion. We teach that color in the absolute sense 
does not exist, as pure thought and pure motion is color- 
less. Color suggests an agent and medium of communica- 
tion. Between black and white in the relative and absolute 
form there is no radical difference. The distinction is in the 
circle of materiality and spirituality. In form, as in essence, 
color bears and interprets a reciprocal relation. Black in 

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materiality refers to black in spirituality, and in the soul or 
in psychic attractions lie the exponent of one color and all 
colors. Pure thought, or thought perfect, is colorless, as is 
likewise that thought which generates black in materiality 
and spirituality. Every impure or black thought has its 
"mate" in spirit and its correspondency. Thoughts, as per- 
sonalities or souls, pass through the same mode of develop- 
ment from black to white, from effect to cause, from birth in 
matter to the apotheosis or Divinity. But do not under- 
stand us as teaching that thoughts are either entities or the 
form of entities as things. Thoughts are the substance of 
the soul as matter may be likened to the substance of spirit 
or drops of water may be likened to the substance of the 
ocean, without which the ocean could have no meaning. 
Thought, in spheres of expression, reveals the soul's ap- 
proach or ascent to Divinity, it designates the degree of at- 
tainment in the circle of the grand man. Thoughts illus- 
trate soul in spheres and planes of expression and manifesta- 
tion and by color reveal the sphere. Thus, with the three 
primary colors, derived from the one perfect motion, blend- 
ing by polarity into the black and white, the negative and 
the positive form, the red, the blue and the yellow, you have 
the four complimentary colors or the seven derivatives. The 
octave is one in seven, one in two, and three in four, through 
a series of one, two, three, four and seven expressions. 
Thus, with the pure white as the basis of Divinity, and black 
as its manifestation, you have the unfoldment of red, the 
blood, illustrating the heart and love, and blue, illustrat- 
ing the brain or wisdom, and the yellow, illustrating the light 
of the spirit which is evolved through the psychic ray from 
within in marriage with the solar ray from without. The 
yellow is regarded as the result of the white, both materially 
and spiritually, polarized by an equal ratio of red and 



86 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

blue. And all the intermediary hues are shades of white in 
parts of blue and red, under the influence of the ray of light 
from without. Yellow itself is a form of white under the 
vibration of red, but blue and red have a more occult in- 
clination and analysis. The blue and the red refer to the 
spirit embodied and polarized in matter; and as such they 
illustrate electrical and magnetic forces in equal parts, one 
(i) shade of blue corresponds to one (i) shade of red in 
results of yellow in aspect to white, and ever is this scale 
the formula of interpretation, because color obeys, as it il- 
lustrates and embodies, the law of rhythm. White is the 
solvent and basis of all electrical and magnetic combina- 
tions. Black is negative and stands in occultism for matter 
or materiality, and in spiritual science for ignorance, evil, 
earthliness, the alleged sinister forces and crude elements 
of Nature. White is positive, and in occultism stands for 
spirit or spirituality, and in spiritual science for wisdom, 
good, heavenliness. Thus the light of day is in eternal con- 
trast to the night, and forces of the one, which are elec- 
trical, ever act in maximum power against and with the 
magnetic forces of darkness or night. Electricity is positive 
while magnetism is negative in the problem of the soul, im- 
mured in matter. Thus the soul or spirit is ever positive to 
matter and the astral vibrations, and has in it the law of 
sovereignty. Matter is ever negative to spirit, as black is to 
white or night is to day. At a time in the solar year in the 
calendar of earth when the ratio between day and night, 
between the electrical and magnetic forces, is fixed by a per- 
fect polarity, these seemingly antagonistic forces play in 
perfect unity. Then is the hour for spirit communion and 
receptivity. At all other times, in concentration and central- 
ization, the psyche must exercise a more potent will force 
to set at naught the outward electrical vibrations in aspect 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 87 

to the spirit's negativeness, against which it operates. This 
is not for a malific end or purpose, but to serve psyche or 
soul 

If we should teach that all color reveals the polarity of 
these two forces in aspect to soul, we shall, as we believe, 
state what is actually true. Spirit establishes by the inherent 
law of affinity the spheric polarity between electrical and 
magnetic vibrations, which, as we have taught, designate the 
white and black, the positive and negative forms of psyche 
in expression and manifestation. Thus, as electricity and 
magnetism are modes of motion, fixed by the unchanging 
Law within the soul, they, through the operation of spirit, 
give the kaleidoscope of colors, which are so beautiful to 
sense or behold. And as in number one (1) sphere and 
plane, the white of the spirit, in yellow expresses itself 
through red and blue, the psychic lenses or spectrum of 
mind and body, you have the chemistry of all colors, the 
seven and three, the two and one, in the myriad of inter- 
blendings. Each shade expresses a thought as each thought 
is an Interpretation of psyche. Thus, at the center of mind 
and heart, through the white in blue and the white in red, 
you have a result in yellow, and the spirit, as well as its 
aura, shines in the colors of its own expression. Nay, more 
than this, could the chemistry of material colors be pene- 
trated or known, it would be found, not only that each 
shade corresponds to a degree in the ray of white or the 
mystic circle of psyche, that each color, whatever may be its 
form or wherever it may be found, illustrates a certain num- 
ber of mathematical vibrations, exact and uniform in har- 
monial and reciprocal spheres and planes of expression and 
manifestation, but that at the center of heart, which is 
ruled through the mind, and at the center of the mind, which 
is ruled through the heart, love, the Divine Principle of 



88 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Psyche, establishes the absolute polarity. So that all color 
finds its basis and interpretation in this absolute polarity. 
Affinity is the law by which this polarity is maintained in 
all the spheres. You are, by this polarity, reaching the 
apotheosis in love; and each sphere, radiating a color, fixed 
by this polarity, in the earth or in any other planet, marks 
the psychic unfoldment. At once it can be seen that if any 
shade of red, blue or yellow, black or white, purple or 
green, be your hue, you are allied by electrical and magnetic 
polarization with all forms that radiate them. So that you 
have your correspondency in minerals, in the flora, in the 
fauna of the Cosmos. You have, in short, your psychic at- 
tractions, so far as color is concerned, to fire, earth, water, 
air, for was it not said by the Pythagoreans and mystics of 
Egypt and Asia that earth is red, water blue, fire white and 
air yellow, and in them is not the soul prefigured and fore- 
shadowed? And thus, the ascent of psyche by spirituality 
is made. The white light of love, operating on mind and 
heart, in a positive and negative polarity of the red and blue 
of the forces of magnetism and electricity, evoking by a 
myriad of combinations of color, the angel of the skies. 
And ever from black, the night of birth, psyche, rises in the 
lap of earth, which is the red, and above the blue, the water, 
by the sun, the yellow, until by death and regeneration the 
veil of matter is destroyed and the veil of spirituality, anal- 
agous in color is given, fire, not water, white, at last purify- 
ing psyche from all black; love, conquering evil, her nega- 
tive, through the potency of the Divine. 



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NINTH EXPERIMENT. 

Read clairvoyantly the color of anyone's mental and 
spiritual aura. What color does the spirituality make? 

In making this experiment attention should be given 
to color waves which pass before the clairvoyant vision. 
Sometimes the vision of these color waves is sensed, rather 
than perceived, and is shown in symbols which must be in- 
terpreted. Note that coarse colors give disagreeable sensa- 
tions, while fine and delicate tints impress one happily. 



LESSON X. 

CLAIRVOYANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN RE- 
LATION TO SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION. 

That clairvoyance and consciousness have a relation 
to the spirtual perception is the evident fact of this series of 
Teachings. Whatever may be the illumination or penetra- 
tion of clairvoyance, and whatever may be the state or 
unfoldment of consciousness that the spiritual perceptions 
use and foreshadow, the spiritual perception is the "reason" 
of intuition, and by reason we do not refer to cause or 
source but to law. As the mind has reason, so the spirit 
in the interior operations, as intuition, has reason. In 
other words, reason is to mind what the spiritual percep- 
tion is to intuition. Intuition and tuition refer to spheres 
of knowledge, the latter to knowledge acquired through 
the senses and the former acquired through divine in- 
spiration. Intuition and tuition have to do with conscious- 
ness in the sphere of clairvoyance, but reason is the law 
of tuition as perception is the law of intuition. The law 
is one and unchanging in both forms of consciousness. 
In psychology, reason is closely affinitized to intuition, and 
so is it, and so should it be, in all spheres of conscious- 
ness. Reason may well be called the exterior or posterior 
guide of spirit, for it is by reason that spirit unfolds. In- 
tuition is higher in its sphere; it has to do with conscious- 

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ness in the enfolded, unfolding- and unfolded states; it is 
ever adjudged by reason before it is made the mode or 
rule of action, occult as the decision may be, yet it is 
focused through reason and reaches the mind or outward 
consciousness in this wise. You may walk by reason in 
both the outward and inward sense, but never do you 
walk by either one alone. Always do they interact, and 
when they harmoniously interact in a perfect polarity, then 
there is perfect spiritual development. 

The spiritual perception as the "reason" of intuition 
has to do with clairvoyance and consciousness, not in the 
outward but the inward sense. In the mind and all that 
relates consciousness to it, reason is regnant, and it is 
through reason that both tuition and intuition are extended. 
As long as reason balks the way to progress and unfold- 
ment in the interior sense, it no longer waits upon intui- 
tion and has become habituated to one mode of action 
or thought; in other words, it seeks for conformity in 
uniformity by conforming variety to a segregated form 
of unity. One word will explain reason in this aspect, and 
it is prejudice. Prejudice is reason subsidized. Reason 
should in the natural and spiritual sense be free to act ac- 
cording to evidence or facts. But where it is conformitory 
in its action, it is disarmed of its power and prerogative 
and is a terrible engine for evil. Where reason is open 
to or receptive of divine inspiration and acts harmoni- 
ously with conscience and perception in the light of both 
tuition and intuition, you have a sphere of consciousness, 
beautiful to behold and more beautiful to realize. It has 
been said that reason is a more potent guide to knowledge 
than perception, and vice versa; but neither statement is 
wholly .true. Each can and does guide, but together they 
are absolute. One may be guided by reason, witness the 



9^ CLAIRVOYANCE. 

scientist and experimentalist, or by perception, witness 
the religionist and metaphysician, or by both, witness the 
philosopher and seer; and in each case excellent and benefi- 
cent results are attained. But the absolute test of power 
and being is in the latter case, where, as is illustrated by 
the seer, the field of vision and action becomes the whole 
sphere of consciousness, where reason through perception, 
and perception through reason, is utilized, and humanity 
thus attains the ideal or spiritual; not by subverting the 
practical but by unfolding life by the Law of Soul. Thus, 
both clairvoyance and consciousness should wait upon both 
reason and perception in this twofold sense, and for rea- 
sons which we shall now specify. 

Firstly, that a line of demarcation should be drawn 
between that which belongs to the sphere of mind in the 
realm of tuition and that which belongs to the mind in 
the realm of intuition. 

Secondly, that you may discern that which is the 
natural seeing and natural perceiving, and that which is 
spiritual seeing and spiritual perceiving. 

Thirdly, that you may know that which is from intui- 
tion and tuition in the sphere of telepathy and divine in- 
spiration. 

Fourthly, that you may discern impressions, clairvoy- 
antly received, through the action of the perception on finer 
ethers in concentration on spirit and spiritual things, and 
that which is the actual impression of an operating spirit 
intelligence. 

Thus, by such analysis, you will have acquired a facility 
for scientific methods and spiritual penetration far beyond 
your most ardent dreams, and besides, you will have at- 
tained the rapport of seers, seeing and perceiving in the 
sphere of clairvoyance and consciousness whether in the 
body or out of it. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 93 



EXPERIMENT X. 

As a test we offer this experiment: Make comparisons 
of the specifications here enumerated and observe the 
sources and methods of reason and perception. 



LESSON XL 

HOW MAN IS UNFOLDED IN INSPIRATION, 

CLAIRVOYANCE AND PSYCHOMETRY. 

THE SPIRIT'S LABORATORY. 

This theme is the most interesting as well as the most 
fascinating in the entire program of Teachings. First, 
because it reveals the modus operandi of spirit; and, sec- 
ondly, because the law of mediumship is made practical 
and operative. 

The mystery of the law of medial unfoldment is in 
the fact that spirit is not understood. Were spirit and its 
nature known, the law of its manifestation and expression 
would not be involved in mystery; rather, all of its processes 
would be both open and simple. Viewing Nature from 
our plane of vision and operation, the spirit presents a 
most varied spectacle. It is as if Nature were a vast loom, 
in which the warp and woof were the life forces, an, 
through and in which psyche, the soul, by threads of light, 
so delicate and extenuated that no spectrum of earth could 
reveal them, weaves the manifestation of form. And so 
exact is the form as a representation of the idea of the 
essence or psyche, that, unless counteracting agencies mar 
the perfection of it, it is a copy of the psyche, so far as 
matter is able to plagiarize spirit or the ideas of spirit. 
This, however, is most beautifully accomplished in the loom 

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of Nature. Few flaws in her handiwork can be found. 
The chalice of the lily or rose is more often immaculate 
in conception and of spotless purity than otherwise. The 
planets and galaxies, as well as the tiniest atom, illustrate 
the Divinity of Nature and the superiority of her power. 
No thread fails to carry out the original purpose of the 
master mind. From the cloister of the spirit where the 
white light of spirit burns in pristine purity to the shell 
where it glows in the form of matter, the integrity of the 
design is intact, and therefore faultless. Could you per- 
ceive this by observing Nature in her own laboratory or 
workshop, you would form an idea or derive a plan of 
the operation of the spirit in the development of medial 
powers in sensitives and mediums. Nature is capable of 
developing the sensitive by an invariable law, which, though 
slow in its action, is sure in its results; but spirit excarnate 
can assist Nature, that is, while neither increasing nor de- 
creasing her balance of power, it can arrange conditions 
for her results. Let it not be forgotten that the science 
of medial unfoldment is not contrary to but in harmony 
with Nature's law, and that it affords spirits the key to 
the end which she foreshadows. Thus, when a sensitive, 
by Nature's law, through experience and education, is 
ready for the office of mediumship, to blossom forth into 
the practical work of a medium, and thus discharge the 
duty which such an one may owe to Divinity, the spirit 
world arranges the necessary conditions for such an one's 
birth and work. The kindred souls, those that are afifini- 
tized to the person, and who have been, by a wise Provi- 
dence, held within the sphere of such an one's attractions, 
feel and see the hour of deliverance approaching, and great 
care is taken that such an one receives the best and finest 
thought waves and ethereal forces for the new birth or 



96 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

phase of work. The immediate time is the most serious and 
important, for then is it the duty of wise spirits on the 
immortal side of life to see to it that the physical frame 
or organism is adapted to the changes which are being 
inwrought. It is as if the person were being readjusted. 
Yet readjustment, in this respect, is not to be con- 
fused with Nature's purpose and law; for whatever may 
be the end or object of mediumship, Nature invariably 
amplifies and perfects it through her causation. What 
we mean by readjustment of the organism is the adapta- 
tion of the outward form to the work of the spirit excar- 
nate, that as in the true and natural sense and sphere or- 
ganism reflects what is within and external to spirit, yet 
it serves the spirit through matter rather than through 
the spiritual body. The outward or material form answers 
the needs of the spirit in its expression, and this is why 
the spirit is "naturalized." The whole establishment of 
the senses and faculties, comprehended by human nature, 
is called into existence through the embodiment of psyche. 
Out of the plane of matter psyche needs no material form, 
and no apparatus for reaching a material form, 
such as the nervous system or the sense system, but 
inasmuch as the sense realm is the reflex of the psychic 
realm, and could have no existence and manifestation were 
it not for their correspondencies or correspondency in 
psyche, the need of them becomes at once apparent. The 
order in the spiritual world is the reverse of the order 
in the natural world; that is, spirit incarnate acts outwardly 
and inwardly through materiality and a polarity established 
through the ratio of forces in their geometrical and in- 
creased expression toward matter, while spirit excarnate 
in its operation upon matter reaches the sense plane in- 
versely or reversely, as has been declared, through another 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 97 

but corresponding polarity. In the normal man the brain 
and mind are polarized to balance the subtler and finer 
psychic forces of the spirit. But in the readjustment the 
medium's organism is depolarized materially, so as to be 
capable of reflecting all that is possible with the excarnate 
spirit under its established polarity. This polarization of 
both planes is only possible with mediums where the 
natural sensitiveness of the organism responds to either 
order of vibrations and where no injury can be done. 
Nature acts normally in both realms, affording all that is 
needful to the perfection of the expression of the medium, 
so far as materiality is concerned, and affording, also, all 
that is needful to the perfection of the excarnate spirit in 
the uses to which it puts mediumship. The organism and 
spirit of the medium are so adjusted to the spiritual body 
and spirit of the controlling or affinitizing spirit or spirits 
that its thought need but be reflected in the spirit of the 
medium, when the control is affected by the will of the 
spirit, 'to be vibrated through the harmonial planes and 
spheres of psychic, mental and organic spectra, and re- 
ceived in the form that the guide wished. Sensitiveness 
is a state of mental receptivity as well as organic read- 
justment to psychic planes of impressibility. The organ- 
ism, being subject to the law of matter in the natural 
world, and the law of spirit in the spiritual world, is thus 
interacted upon, and the most perfect concentration of 
mind is necessary, where the organism is not responsive 
to the will of the excarnate intelligence, or even where it 
is in perfect accord, so that no mar or jar may occur in 
the translation of the idea. Very few, indeed, even of 
the media, understand the delicacy of the relation, and 
thus errors are transmitted to the material plane and form 
a large percentage of the pabulum sent to hungry mortals 



98 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

by the spirit world, which, were the concentration per- 
fect, both as to receptivity and impressibility of all con- 
cerned, could altogether be avoided. Mediumship is but 
another name for the ability of an embodied spirit or mor- 
tal to reflect through a polarization of spirit in reverse 
relation to its normal life, by a perfect affinitization of 
organism, so far as its impressibility is concerned, and with 
spirit, so far as its receptivity is concerned, that which is 
given from the operating, excarnate spirit intelligence. 
Mediumship enables an excarnate spirit to reverse the 
normal order of spirit in the form and apply the process 
of action that obtains on the ethereal plane. Yet, in all 
the diversified forms of mediumship, the work of the ex- 
carnate spirit is affected by a conformity to material laws, 
conditions and elements. Psychic force is used instead of 
instrumentalities. 

The medium is thus organized and prepared for his 
work and it is easily seen that the degree of the work done or 
to be done by the spirit world depends entirely upon the 
absoluteness of the control or guidance. Where there is 
disharmony or pride, selfishness or vice to contend with, not 
only will the manifestations be impaired and distorted, if not 
dispersed, but the development will be retarded and violent. 
There is a divine signification to mediumship. It obeys a 
law of soul. It follows a force as eternal and immutable as 
God. So let it be received. 

The descent of this light from the higher spheres is a 
wonderful event to the spirit world, and it means much for 
the truth. In the spirit, where this birth or development 
is at first seen, the process and travail are so delicate and 
refined that it is seldom noticed or felt ; but when the light 
reaches and hence operates on the form, in the transfusion 
and depolarization of the particles of matter, and when the 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 99 

repolarization, in the spiritual sense, of the nerve centers 
takes place inversely to their normal action, as when the 
birth throes adt on the physical form, then there is more 
or less pain. Then is it that the mediumship is reaching 
its normal and dual action. 

To effect this development is to let Nature take her 
course. All development must be outwrought by Nature's 
formula. Galvanic and hypnotic forces may effect an ap- 
parent growth, but the process of incubation in spiritual- 
ism is not the real means to the real end. Hypnotism is a 
dangerous expedient. Mediumship is spiritual in its 
sphere, inception and office and can be reached and un- 
folded best by Nature's invariable formula. Thus, when the 
spirit world, that is ever alert for the chosen ones, behold 
any who are about to blossom into medial unfoldment, cer- 
tain guides, divinely appointed for their work and qualified 
for their sphere of inspiration, select out of other affinitized 
spirits those who are consecrated to the office of medium- 
ship and who, by the elements which they are able to give 
to the medium by means of an inter-psychic harmony, afford 
a sure and permanent basis of action. Where this guid- 
ance is not effected, a medium is subject, by a variable polar- 
ity of attractions and repulsions, to all kinds of influences, in 
and out of the body, but where harmony of spirit and 
organism reigns, where the normal equilibrium of spirit- 
uality, through the power of self control, is attained, there 
is perfect action in the law and results of the law of 
mediumship. The medium's brain as a terrestrial magnet, 
is polarized by the magnet or battery of the finer spirit 
forces, ethereal in their nature; the spirits in concentration 
acting uniformly in thought, which responds spiritually to 
the poles of the medium's brain and the poles of the spirit's 
external batteries at a center of radiation. And thus, 



ioo CLAIRVOYANCE. 

through this means, the phenomena, in the material and 
mental realm, are produced. To affect this polarity is the 
object of spirits in development; and when the physical 
vibrations in the action of the organism correspond to the 
mental vibrations in the action of the brain, and all har- 
monize with the action of the spirits in the concentration 
of their forces and batteries, then a medium is ready for 
work. 

There is this to be said concerning the law that relates 
spirits to the media as guides or messengers. There is no se- 
lection, as is commonly anticipated or understood among 
mortals, unless the selection be understood to be the pre-or- 
dained arrangements of Nature. Guides, like atoms, have their 
attractions. They stand for and embody certain principles, 
and are as much within the influence of a medium to whom 
they are attracted as the gas designated oxygen is within 
the ethers of earth. There is cause and reason for all at- 
tractions. Each soul has its natural polarity in the attrac- 
tions and repulsions of souls; all are not drawn into the 
same soul sphere nor to the same plane of revealment and 
manifestation of thought. And as each soul finds its own 
in the negative and positive relation, so each medium in the 
psychic sphere obeys the law which enspheres its beloved 
angels. And as is the degree of the circle of the expression 
and the collateral environments, so the psychic attractions. 
All great souls, on the excarnate side of life, reach to their 
own through the ramified and various planes and spheres 
of spirit, and thus the triangle, the double triangle, or the 
square and the circle, illustrate how, from one point to two 
and from two to one, three lines measure the square of ma- 
teriality and the circle of spirituality, all souls on all planets 
responding to one law that draws each and all to one divine 
center of life, light and love. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 101 



ELEVENTH EXPERIMENT. 

Make a clairvoyant reading. In making this experi- 
ment, use the following formula. Note the impressions and 
visions which impinge upon the mind as you touch or 
enter into communication with the person or thing. 



FORMULA. 

i. Describe the person or thing; the person as to char- 
acter, temperament and personality; the thing as to size, 
nature, material. 

2. Describe the past, present and future. 

3. As to person: Adaptation in life, mental and busi- 
ness endowments. As to thing: Location, migrations, 
uses. 

4. As to person : Travel, sickness, changes, accidents, 
deaths. As to thing: History. 

5. As to person : Who are friends or enemies and who 
are apt to be friend or enemy? As to thing: Its effect on 
life. 

6. Describe the spirits that you see in and out of the 
body as to appearance. State names, ages, conditions. What 
message is given? As to thing: What scenes and visions 
are evoked. 

7. General remarks. 



LESSON XII. 

THE HIGHER ASPECTS OF CLAIRVOYANCE. 

All gifts of the spirit may be abused, that is, not used 
as the unchanging law of psyche designed. They may 
be subsidized for purposes which are temporal and not 
employed for ends which are divine. We here speak of 
the spiritual gifts and of mediumship in contradistinction 
to talents or genius, or even psychometry in its restricted 
sense and uses; and therefore the sensitive should remem- 
ber that whatever may be his phase or phases of medium- 
ship, he will be held accountable for and the good that 
he attains will be perceived and determined by the con- 
secration of these gifts to their true end. The fortune- 
teller, palmist, card reader, clairvoyante, are doing a work 
in a sense helpful to humanity and honorable, but, ignorant 
of the import of the science to which they owe their fortune 
and success, they pervert, either unknowingly or knowingly, 
its sacred aims, and while vitiating public opinion, at the 
same time undermine the foundation of faith in the gen- 
uine manifestations and inspirations of the spirit. Much 
more should be said upon this all-important feature of 
the subject than would at first seem feasible, and yet the 
cause of spiritualism will defend itself by its own work 

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against the enemies outside of or within its own household. 

The sensitive seeking clairvoyant development is too 
apt to be affected by the material uses to which clairvoy- 
ance can be put, and the practical ends to be attained 
thereby, than by the interior and spiritual blessings which 
follow a perfect consecration of one's powers to divine ends. 
Each one seems to be seeking for manifestations, to see 
something and somewhat, rather than to perceive the sub- 
jective or causal operations of the spirit and the extended 
range of forces and principles which make up the sphere 
of the soul's life and Divinity. It is not to be deplored 
that this is so, nor is such seeking to be deprecated, but 
it is strange that all should not unfold such clairvoyance in 
the sphere of which the light and law of the spirit could be 
perceived and realized. The spiritual manifestations on 
the objective and subjective planes have a purpose, and 
that purpose is in the formal way to reveal the expression 
and consciousness of the soul; not to hold one to a fixed 
kaleidoscope of material forms, simply as a thing of beauty, 
but to impress upon each one through them the sense 
of duty. Thus there is a line of demarcation to be drawn 
between a medium who literalizes or materializes spiritual 
things, and cares naught for or refuses to be led into the 
higher Teachings of the spirit, and one who, while recogniz- 
ing the sphere of mediumship, yet consecrates all medium- 
ship to Divinity; shows by teaching and perception that 
matter is the vessel into which the spirit pours its forces 
and light, to open up the interior psychic realms and place 
the mind upon heavenly things. 

To be able to see clairvoyantly and give trance or in- 
dependent tests of spirit presences is well in its place, but 
such work is altogether auxiliary to the real work and 
office of the spirit on both sides of life. Clairvoyance in 



104 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

its higher aspects is divination through a consciousness 
illumined and unfolded by spirituality. Spirituality with- 
out or with mediumship is the key to psychic realization. 
Mediumship through the mental and physical phases 
proves objectively the deathless consciousness and post- 
mortem power of spirits, but spirituality here and every- 
where makes this an experience and a realization. There 
are those who are mediums and spiritualists who are both 
unregenerate and material; that is, they have not yet been 
"born of the spirit," baptized with its own fire of inspiration. 
To thoise who, like Nicodemus, seek to understand the eso- 
teric significance of the exoteric fact of birth, Jesus points 
not to the phenomena of embodiment through the gener- 
ative processes of Nature, but to the awakening of the 
spirit as out of a sleep into a consciousness of the spirit 
as an immortal being. And this awakening is attained 
through spirituality and leads to consecration. There is 
no question but that the mission of modern spiritualism 
is to place both spirit and mediumship in a sphere where 
their uses and purposes will be perceived, and where me- 
diums as well as their disciples will have no other propa- 
ganda than the inspirations of truth. When this shall have 
been attained, jealousy, envy, spite, selfishness among the 
media and workers will have ceased, and the world will 
reap the peaceful benefits of a spotless and consecrated 
representation of the forces of heaven. This is the higher 
aspect of clairvoyance as viewed from the standpoint of 
mediumship and the uses to which spiritual gifts should 
be put- 
There is, however; an aspect to clairvoyance as a factor 
of consciousness which we wish now to mention, and 
which, if fully understood, refers to benefits to sensitives, 
mediums and all who are interested in their psychic de- 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 105 

velopment. If the exercise of mediumship in the sphere 
of clairvoyance has material advantages, surely there are 
spiritual that have not been realized. If clairvoyance en- 
ables you to see spirits in and out of the body, time and 
space being no barriers, surely it also enables you to per- 
ceive the height, depth and breadth of the Principle, oper- 
ative and imminent in all forms of life, in life itself. And 
this is the all-important aspect to which we wish to call your 
attention, for two reasons: First, that you may be divinely 
human in the exercise of your conscience, will, faculties 
and prerogatives; secondly, that you may know your sphere 
and plane in the cosmos. That clairvoyance can procure 
you these benefits is evidenced by the facts which it affords 
of divination. The consciousness, symbol of the All Seeing 
Eye, is free to perceive the fullness of God. In it God is 
reflected and revealed, but the quality and intensity of the 
reflection and revelation depend altogether upon the grade 
of spirituality. As spirituality deepens and partakes more 
and more of the principle of the soul, it opens the sphere 
of spiritual light, and in that atmosphere the spirit perceives 
God. To perceive the object of the unchanging law is 
not to remove from one planet to another, nor to force 
the apotheosis by magic, if that could be done, but it is 
to look into psyche from the plane and sphere in which 
you manifest, and unfolding yourself into the highest de- 
gree in the circle of your expression on earth, to util- 
ize the light that belongs to you. For the mission of spir- 
itualism through mediumship and clairvoyance or seer- 
ship is to show that you are as near to psyche here on 
this planet, as near to the principle of being, as near to 
God, as you ever can be, and that since you can really 
communicate with the Divine Principle of all Being 
through Nature and her myriads of forms and denizens 



106 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

of life, so you can spiritually commune with this spirit in 
the realm of consciousness. Forms but veil the spirit; 
they do not set it at naught; they but manifest it; they do 
not make communication impossible. The spirit when 
truy penetrated reveals the law of its embodiments and ex- 
pressions, and this clairvoyance elaborates and elucidates. 
It is then the privilege of all souls to penetrate the 
interior spirit of the universe and grow potent and divine 
through spirituality. This is the key to the realms on 
high, the happy gateway to the sky. This is the light of 
consciousness that men have said never was on sea or 
land, but is perceived behind the curtain of the senses. This 
is the realm where as from a universal, unchanging and 
eternal polarity souls swarm to catch the breath of the 
Light of the World. This is the heart of the White Rose, 
that fashions each petal white, that the eye may see the 
beauty of the spirit and know that art and Nature lead to 
love and peace. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 107 



EXPERIMENT XII. 

Withhold nothing, but notice how the principles of 
seeing and perceiving open up the circle of life eternal in 
all worlds. Concentrate on this principle and swim out 
on its vibration to the outermost and innermost Reality. 



io8 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



BENEDICTION. 

With this spirit of research you have naught to fear. 
The temple of wisdom and of the living God is yours to 
possess and enjoy. In its pure, white light that burns at its 
altar there is no shadow or changing. Its inspiration is per- 
fect, its power all embracing, its love surpassingly sweet. 
Within the cloister or cabinet of its walls angels meet with 
one accord and spirit; overarching it is unbounded love. 
Nature is its oracle and her law is perfect. Thus, dear 
friends, make the anabasis of the soul, from the depths to 
the heights, out of the sense realm into the spirit of all 
things, that the soul may have no veil between it and God, 
but that Divinity and Humanity may be one in Harmony, 
Light, Consciousness and Peace. Go forth, and as the chil- 
dren of the earth, bear your lilies to the upper light and the 
fragrance of spirituality will reward you for your toil. We 
shall breathe upon you the melodies of love until all things 

shall be fulfilled. Trust us! 

The Guides. 



THE ORDER OF THE WHITE ROSE. 

This mystic order is Rosicrucian in aim and is com- 
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such as have mastered the four series of Teachings elsewhere 
described, which form the System of Philosophy Concern- 
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in America and Europe ; it will spread Westward and East- 
ward, and we encourage each one who enters the college as a 
student and who is afterward inspired to go on through 
the prescribed studies, however feeble and dormant to them 
their psychic powers may seem, to aspire and toil for 
adeptship. All such will receive the increasing fruitions of 
the order. To these, on the payment of the annual fee of 
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